Authors who self-publish are often those who have been overlooked or simply ignored by the conglomerate-owned publishing houses that control most of what the world reads today. The annual flood of manuscripts, winnowed by agents and editors into the market-driven products found on the shelves of major booksellers, unfortunately drowns out many new and inspired voices that ought to be heard.Self-publishing doesn’t mean that an author has nothing worthwhile to contribute to the world of literature or to the world culture. It simply means that an author has undertaken a bold new initiative in his or her quest to establish a following, a readership that will make the effort of writing a worthwhile endeavor, after all.
