Lazy Literary Agents In Self-Publishing Money Grab via Argo Navis

I was at the London Book Fair last week – and I’ll be blogging about that soon – when the news broke thatDavid Mamet is to self-publish his next book.

His reasons?”Publishing is like Hollywood—nobody ever does the marketing they promise.”

While I think it’s great that someone as high-profile as David Mamet is self-publishing, I was very disappointed to find out theway he’s doing it.

Self-publishing is big business. By my estimates, self-publishers have captured 25% of the US ebook market. It can...