Academic's Guide to Self-Publishing

I wanted to post about The Academic's Guide to Self-Publishing alone because I think there are a lot of people out there who are curious about self-publishing but don't know where to begin, whom to trust, or where to start. And, I'm still seeing snippy remarks coming from genre authors who are with small e-presses about self-publishing as if they are far too grand to self-publish.

But I think we've reached the point where self-publishing has become a viable alternative to writers, e...