[DMatusik]

It's good to see people coming out in support of self-publishing. It also helps independent publishers, like myself, by breaking down the stereotype that good literature can only come from the big-name NYC publishers.

With Lulu and others, it's easy to revise your work and continually improve it. When you sell a dozen or so copies and need to make some changes, it's not a big deal because there aren't that many copies "in the wild." It's much more difficult to do that with a traditionally-published book, even though it does occur often.

An excerpt from Orson Scott Card's introduction in his latest edition of "Ender's Game:"
"And yet when a novel goes back to print . . . there ought to be something new in it to mark the occasion (something besides the minor changes as I fix the errors and internal contradictions and stylistic excesses . . ."