DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! dmiessler.com | grep understanding is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

dmiessler.com | grep understanding

dmiessler.com/about/
Jump to original thread »
Author

Self-Publishing — Not All Bad?

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

As this blog post points out, self-publishing isn’t necessarily all bad. As it turns out, O’Reilly (the animal computer-book Gods) self-published 100 copies of his Learning The Unix Operating System in 1985. Well, today O’Reilly is on the way to becoming ... Continue reading »

1 comment

  • Self-publishing is no worse or better than going through a traditional publishing house. The goal, either way, is to sell a ton of books, and neither method offers a garuntee of doing so.
    The stigma with self-publication stems from the idea that "this wasn't good enough to be accepted by a publishing house, so I put it out myself in my own vanity."
    Often, that's very true. Also, many traditonally published books suck, too.
    The methods are equal, ultimately.

Add New Comment

Returning? Login