Self-Publishing: The Punk Rock of the Publishing Industry

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The beast known as self-publishing is both simple and complicated. It’s simple because, well, writing is simple… and complicated. Damn, this could get confusing. All right, so it’s like this:

When punk rock first began, it seemed to be (at least from my knowledge of it) about jumping around on stage, yelling and screaming, wailing on your guitar and drums to make a lot of noise and make everyone jump around. It seemed to be about not conforming, do...