Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute: A Closer Look at Today’s Self-Publishing Market

If you travel back in time, or at least dig into my blog archives, you’ll find a lot of self-publishing talk. I can remember the very first entry I ever posted without having to look it up. It was a confession, AA-style: “Hi, my name is Ania, and I’m a writer.” Because back then hardly anyone knew. And then I came out of the closet, slapped a little book titled SEED onto the self-publishing scene, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Except that was then and this is now. As with everything i...