Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

Much is published, but little printed.

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.