Self-Publishing is Over ? The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Alan Jacobs, writing at TheAtlantic.com:

[O]ne of the illusions most common to writers ? an illusion that may make the long slow slog of writing possible, for many people ? is that an enormous audience is out there waiting for the wisdom and delight that?I alone?can provide, and that the Publishing System is a giant obstacle to my reaching those people. Thus the dream that digital publishing technologies will indeed ?disintermediate? ? will eliminate that obstacle and connect me directly to what Bugs Bunny calls ?me Public.? (See??Bully for Bugs?.) And we have heard just enough unexpected success stories to keep that dream alive.

I?ll chime in with my own success story, but only in service of paying off this post?s title:

Source: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/03/01/self-publishing-is-over/

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