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Why don't you make your books available in
electronic form? You would save yourself all the hassle with printers!
Why do you publish your books yourself -
is it just vanity publishing?
Can you send me an email next time you
have some new books for sale?
Why can't I get your books at Amazon and
places like that? Aren't they good enough?
- What does 'FAQ' mean?
- It's short for Frequently Asked Questions.
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- Why don't you make your books available in electronic form? You
would save yourself all the hassle with printers!
- In a word, piracy. An electronic book can be copied with a click. One person copies it
for a few friends, they do likewise... everyone has a good read and I starve. With a
printed paper book, people can still be naughty but it's harder and the results are
less perfect. If there were a secure way to publish electronically, I might do so. But
there isn't. I know about Adobe Acrobat's security features, but it doesn't really solve
the problem. Top
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- Why do you publish your books yourself - is it just vanity
publishing?
- Vanity publishing means paying someone to publish your book, usually because the book is
not publishable on any commercial basis. Self-publishing means publishing the book
yourself - and some self-published books do very well commercially.
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- I actually like being my own publisher. It's hard work, which is a good thing,
and it's fun and rewarding. I have had approaches from publishers. In my
experience, this involves lots of meetings over a few centuries which lead to highly
amusing letters like this. I don't
blame the publishers - they have to go with the market. Top
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- Can you send me an email next time you have some new books for
sale?
- Be glad to! Just join my Mailing List (please see the Home page menu). Top
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- Why can't I get your books at Amazon and places like that? Aren't
they good enough?
- It's for other people to say whether my books are 'good enough'! As it happens, I have
had someone at Amazon approach me about a re-seller deal, but for now I prefer to keep
control over my own business. I may well change this policy, but not just yet. Top
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