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  • sullivanthepoet
    Jul 21 6:46 AM 2007
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    Why is everyone so bloody sniffy about self publishing?

    It was good enough for Dickens, Chaucer, Shakespeare and a great many of the leading names in english literature past and present...

    Let's be honest with ourselves here; a slim volume of perverse verse is hardly The Gulag Archipeligo or War and Peace; or Harry Potter for that matter, and as such is unlikely to attract either a mass audience or much in the way of profit for a publishing conglomerate... So why not?

  • Barbara
    July 24, 2007
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    Most might say that back in those days, one had to self publish......

    although....

    These are just a few popular writers reported to have used self-publishing to launch their careers:

    William Blake
    Robbie Burns
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Samuel (Mark Twain) Clemens
    Alexander Dumas
    Zane Grey
    James Joyce
    Rudyard Kipling
    D.H. Lawrence
    Edgar Allen Poe
    George Bernard Shaw
    Henry David Thoreau
    Virginia Woolf
    Margaret Atwood
    Tom Clancy
    Stephen Crane
    Wayne Dyer
    Carl Sandberg....

    the list goes on.

  • sullivanthepoet
    July 24, 2007
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    Wow!!! If the list goes on keep adding to it - I am intrigued...

  • earthstar
    July 24, 2007
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    There many more this is a good start. When you read there story about it that when it gets really good.
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