Why Self-publishing Is So Good For Literary Culture
Half or more of the books on Amazon’s daily bestseller lists are now self-published. At The Alliance of Independent Authors…
Half or more of the books on Amazon’s daily bestseller lists are now self-published. At The Alliance of Independent Authors…
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We're ‘indies', right? Indie authors?
Most of us have embraced the term and have some idea what we mean by the concept. But there's a lot of confusion out there, with people using the term ‘indie' interchangeably with ‘self-publisher', and people meaning wildly different things when they use those words.
Here at The Alliance of Independent Authors we gave great thought to terminology when we were setting up. Were we going to be an alliance of self-publishers or independent authors? What was the difference, anyway?
Here are the conclusions we came to: