But, having moved
to a
new city without any other prospect of earning an income, he saw no choice but
to agree to terms he would
never have willingly accepted had anyone told him about them beforehand.
But rather than segregating self published books, what I would rather see is an education of the public
to differentiate between the
terms vanity publishing (which I think most folks
agree is generally bad and awful and will
never lose its stigma), self - publishing (which often connotes work that has not been properly vetted by people who know how
to judge a good product) and indie publishing, which is a
term that those of us who use it are hoping will come
to mean quality — work that has been vetted by independent editors and formatted by people who give a damn about putting out a professional product that rivals anything put out by
New York.