While the In­ter­net may be harm­ing pub­lish­er chances of mak­ing a prof­it, it has been down­right help­ful to au­thors and con­tent cre­ators, and self pub­lish­ers. There are very con­ve­nient In­ter­net on de­mand ser­vices where all you have to do to get start­ed is to open an ac­count, up­load your book and art­work for the cov­er, and set up your IS­BN num­ber.

Many conventionally-published authors still view self-publishing with contempt. They feel self-publishing companies and those authors who choose to use them are “cheating” somehow. After all, getting a book published traditionally has always been “hard work.”