In a time that many are describing as the Internet era is has become important for authors to know how to self publish a book. This has not been so important before as it is now simply because it has been very difficult. Painters and journalists have not had the same difficulties because publishing processes are quite easy in those fields. Now book publishing has become eminently possible, if not so easy.
With the advent of the Internet late in the twentieth century a revolution was set in motion. Some people think that it is as momentous as the French Revolution in its impact on the ways of the world. However just as that revolution made monarchs obsolete and created now opportunities for competent people, so similar challenges and opportunities await in the twenty-first century.
Experts predicted some decades ago that young and old alike would have to adapt by creating their own employment instead of relying upon state created jobs. Some heard the warnings and readied themselves for change. Many who did not heed the warnings now find themselves unemployed.
Traditional publishing firms have been secure for many centuries because there was little competition for texts printed on paper. When cinema was invented it started an avalanche of films and screen texts that began to replace printed papers. Change may have been slow at first but it accelerated so rapidly that many book publishers may feel that they are blinking in bemused fashion at developments they can barely understand.
Though particular forms of publishing may be threatened the industry in general is in the pink. To publish means to make public and the Internet and social networking sites have revolutionized the individual's ability to make his views known to the wider world which has become quite similar to a village in many respects.
Social networking may be one step away from face-to-face communication but it is not very far removed. Immediacy is there and also the ability to reach strangers and friends on different continents. Brevity has become an essential features of communication on both phones and networking sites but will always remain elusive.
When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1439 the world changed. Movements such as the Enlightenment followed. Theories and arguments could be permanently recorded in books and studied at length and in detail. Books carried the wisdom and intelligence of the greatest minds from one generation to the next and also made information available to the broad mass of people who became increasingly literate.
Some inferior books have been published by traditional publishers but in general it might be agreed that the difficulty of getting books published has, in the past, been a factor in maintaining academic standards. Against that there is evidence that some great works only became known to the world by accident having been rejected many times before good luck saw them published. Possibly, some books that might have changed the world have never been published.
Detailed information of how to self publish a book is available online. Authors who have written a good book but failed to find a traditional publisher for it can find all that they need to know about how to do it themselves. Now that the technology exists to make this possible there are many professionals working in what is becoming a new niche in the publishing world.
With the advent of the Internet late in the twentieth century a revolution was set in motion. Some people think that it is as momentous as the French Revolution in its impact on the ways of the world. However just as that revolution made monarchs obsolete and created now opportunities for competent people, so similar challenges and opportunities await in the twenty-first century.
Experts predicted some decades ago that young and old alike would have to adapt by creating their own employment instead of relying upon state created jobs. Some heard the warnings and readied themselves for change. Many who did not heed the warnings now find themselves unemployed.
Traditional publishing firms have been secure for many centuries because there was little competition for texts printed on paper. When cinema was invented it started an avalanche of films and screen texts that began to replace printed papers. Change may have been slow at first but it accelerated so rapidly that many book publishers may feel that they are blinking in bemused fashion at developments they can barely understand.
Though particular forms of publishing may be threatened the industry in general is in the pink. To publish means to make public and the Internet and social networking sites have revolutionized the individual's ability to make his views known to the wider world which has become quite similar to a village in many respects.
Social networking may be one step away from face-to-face communication but it is not very far removed. Immediacy is there and also the ability to reach strangers and friends on different continents. Brevity has become an essential features of communication on both phones and networking sites but will always remain elusive.
When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1439 the world changed. Movements such as the Enlightenment followed. Theories and arguments could be permanently recorded in books and studied at length and in detail. Books carried the wisdom and intelligence of the greatest minds from one generation to the next and also made information available to the broad mass of people who became increasingly literate.
Some inferior books have been published by traditional publishers but in general it might be agreed that the difficulty of getting books published has, in the past, been a factor in maintaining academic standards. Against that there is evidence that some great works only became known to the world by accident having been rejected many times before good luck saw them published. Possibly, some books that might have changed the world have never been published.
Detailed information of how to self publish a book is available online. Authors who have written a good book but failed to find a traditional publisher for it can find all that they need to know about how to do it themselves. Now that the technology exists to make this possible there are many professionals working in what is becoming a new niche in the publishing world.
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