[johnny]

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And... that sounds like a sad country for aspiring writers. Because self-publishing really, really isn't publishing. I only hope that it's more honest there than it is in the States and the UK and such. The self-publishing that I know of is... downright traumatic to writers. You have all the hope and joy of being published and then find that not only do you have to pay a printing fee, a title fee, and a $50-a-page "reader's fee", but you also have to sell the book yourself, design your own cover, and the binding is slap-dash quality and pages often fall out, are missing, are upside-down.

In real publishing, the publishing house finds manuscripts and pays the author a flat rate to begin with. The books have to make back that flat rate, and then for every dollar over the flat rate you get a percentage of the sales. It's a gamble for publishing houses, which is why they try and find the best book out there to publish, and why getting published when it's done right is such an honor to writers.

Well, unless you own/work for/parents own/you have connections with the publishing house. Then you get Twilight. And there is no honor there.