Revolution: How Indie Authors Built a Publishing Infrastructure That Publishers Couldn't
A generation of self-publishing authors didn't wait for the industry to change they built the tools, platforms, and workflows they needed, and the publishing world is still catching up.
There is a moment in the history of any industry when the people who were excluded from its infrastructure decide to build their own. That moment, in American publishing, arrived sometime between 2008 and 2011, when a critical mass of authors who had been rejected by literary agents and traditional houses looked at the tools available to them and decided to make different ones. What they built over the next fifteen years is remarkable. It is not merely a collection of apps and websites. It is a parallel publishing...
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