"Independent authorship" refers to the act of writing and publishing books, articles, or any written content without being controlled by a company or publisher. It means creating and releasing content directly as an individual, without relying on any external entity to oversee or assist in the writing process.
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One particular author motivated to write for the audience described above — the audience of creative, innovative, driven people who just need to know how to navigate the crooked, difficult, and infinitely rewarding path
of independent authorship.
My hope would be that online or independent authors would stay away from it — and be repudiated for it — precisely because it could taint all online /
independent authorship as that avenue of publishing takes hold.
One principle of copyright law is that if you can
prove independent authorship, there can not be liability no matter how similar your work is to the prior work.
Anyone who has a passing familiarity with the publishing industry knows there are many projects which do not meet this test
of independent authorship.
Because applying proven marketing principles to
independent authorship is how successful indie publishers turn a «luck of the draw» marketplace into a sound enterprise with a stable income source.
Independent authorship — self - publishing — is all about having options.
Following up on the previous post, I think it's worth taking a moment to consider where we are as a culture, and how we might evolve in the future relative to
independent authorship and self - publishing.
The best news about self - publishing and
independent authorship is that there's no downside to giving more writers more opportunity to be read and heard.
In every respect I can think of, software publishing is either a similar or better business parallel to
independent authorship than traditional book publishing.
Independent authorship is, more than anything, a state of mind.
The world of
independent authorship is filled with plenty of garbage mixed in with real treasures.
There is
no independent authorship.