Aspiring authors once viewed self-publishing as a risky sidestep from traditional routes, but the modern publishing world has drastically evolved. Online platforms offer unprecedented access to readers, and a well-planned strategy can catapult new voices into a...
The Big Five publishing houses produce almost 60% of the English-language books and thousands of small publishing houses and self-published authors produce the rest. The turnover and the rate of failure of the little guys are huge.
The monopoly of the publishing houses wasn’t broken by the opportunity to self-publish, but because their power to sell got taken from them. Internet and social media did this.
