Authors exercise their "write" to self-publish
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(CBS News) Even John Lennon - a Beatle - needed a publisher for his first book, "In His Own Write," back in 1964. Today authors nobody ever heard of can publish their OWN work all by themselves. . . IN THEIR OWN WRITE, as it were. Our Cover Story is reported now by Rita Braver: Richard Paul Evans went from a 700-square-foot Salt Lake City house to a much larger one, all because of a little tale he wrote for his daughters. Did he think he could sell it and that everyone would fall in love with his book? Negative, Evans said. "The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being President of the United States - it's not gonna happen," he said. But it DID happen for Rick Evans.
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Stephanie Bond
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| 0 | "For the longest time publishers have been able to dictate what is on the shelf," Bond said. ... |
| 0 | "For the longest time publishers have been able to dictate what is on the shelf," Bond said. "They've been the gatekeepers." |
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Richard Paul Evans
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| -0.213836 | "At that point I thought, you know, maybe I should send this to publishers, and they all quickly rejected the book," Evans said. |
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Rita Braver
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| 0.167768 | "There is almost a movement amongst some popular writers who are self-published to say, 'Don't go to publishers, they rip you off, they don't really promote your books unlike they're a really big seller.' Don't those authors have a point?" asked Braver. |
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Jamie Rabb
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| -0.0224348 | "When you price a book at 99 cents, $1.99, I personally think it devalues the author's time and effort," said Jamie Rabb, ... |
| 0 | "No, they don't," Rabb laughed. ... |
| 0.287365 | "No, they don't," Rabb laughed. "I've worked in publishing a long time, and I see what happens to a book when it's acquired. First of all it's copyedited, it's proofread. They have a team of professional artists and markets that come up with a wonderful package, who try to figure out - even for books we don't spend a lot of money on - how to get them to the public." |
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John Lennon
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Authors exercise their "write" to self-publish
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Ebooks and print-on-demand are rewriting the rules of authors seeking to have their works made available to the reading public
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