I asked Charlie about that once on his blog and got grimaced at, textually - I think he gets that question a lot. Later on he published a set of magazine-length

I asked Charlie about that once on his blog and got grimaced at, textually - I think he gets that question a lot. Later on he published a set of magazine-length articles on his blog on the work that goes into the publication of a book. Start here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/common-misconceptions-about-pu.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/common-m... I was convinced before reading that set of entries that self-publishing was a simple, obvious answer. I'm now convinced that like all other simple, obvious answers, it's wrong :-) I still think that authors could form together and create a mutual publishing association of some sort and succeed that way. However, I can totally understand that anyone who writes a book does it because they like writing and not publishing - to an extent that they'd rather not make the money than as good as switch careers completely.