What ePublishing Blog is About

I am far from an expert on ebooks, epublishing or self-publishing, having never published anything more than a few pamphlets. But I have an interest in this because I believe the conventional publishing industry has become concentraited into the hands of just a few huge media holding companies and that means too few new authors are getting published. All to often print publishers stick with safe, well known authors rather than expend the effort to promote a new author who might write just as well.

Also, there is the cost of conventional print books as a factor. Prices, even for mass market books have gotten high. So I would like to explore how ebooks can keep costs down.

And a third factor I would like to explore is epublishing being used to keep backlists in-print. I can see how this can be both a good and bad thing for an author depending on how this is done.

So this blog is my exploration, in near realtime, of epublishing and self publishing both by the big commercial publishers, small press and individual authors self publishing. I want to explore ideas, find what works and find resources for normal people to publish their own ebooks and POD books.