Self-publishing’s growing influence

Entertainment Weekly has a short piece on John Edgar Wideman’s upcoming story collection, Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind, which is being self-published and sold on Lulu. This is notable, of course, because Wideman is a long-established writer with many awards and honors to his credit, including the International PEN/Faulkner Award for both Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990) and a National Book Critics Circle nomination for Brothers and Keepers (1984).

EW’s Keith Staskiewicz connects the dots: If more established writers turn to do-it-yourself publishing, “Authors would clearly exercise greater control over their work, its distribution, and, importantly, its price.”

What do you think?

(Thanks to Andre Becker of Gotham Writers' Workshop for bringing this piece to my attention!)

Comments

Lady Jan wrote re: Self-publishing’s growing influence on Wed, Mar 24 2010 7:52 PM Oh, I can see badly editing books being in the future of lulu.