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.