Adventures in Self Publishing - The Introduction

If you're a long time reader of The Standards Blog, you'll recall that in the first half of 2010 I wrote a book called The Alexandria Project. I posted a new chapter of that book here at The Standards Blog every Monday, and by the end it comprised 29 chapters, plus prologue and epilogue. Somewhere between 3 and 4,000 people loyally followed that tale through to its conclusion. Since then, I've been going through the trials and tribulations of getting The Alexandria Project published, and starting a sequel tentatively called The Lafayette Diversion.

In between posting the chapters of the sequel to that book on a weekly basis to my blog, I also plan to share with you some insights into what it's like to self-publish a book, since it appears that books of this type (and especially eBook versions of the same) are destined to comprise an ever larger percentage of new books reaching the market, as well as of all books sold, in absolute terms. In a nut shell, that's because the value proposition provided by the traditional publishers is becoming less and less compelling all of the time.

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