It is a sad fact of life for authors that only about 3% of them will ever get picked up and promoted to publishers by literary agents. As a consequence many new and aspiring authors are these days considering self-publishing as an option to market their . . .

It is a sad fact of life for authors that only about 3% of them will ever get picked up and promoted to publishers by literary agents. As a consequence many new and aspiring authors are these days considering self-publishing as an option to market their work, rather than languishing in obscurity.

Web based technologies and the trend towards media convergence is making this process ever easier because online publishing aggregates demand at a single point of reference for the global audience of readers.

However there are still a lot of myths surrounding e-publishing. As avid readers and writers we would like to use this discussion space to chew over some of the issues related to self publishing.

At Bookhabit we created an e-publishing site that enables authors to upload their book for free and test it out on a global audience. The best part is that writers get to retain ownership of their work.

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