{"id":995,"date":"2012-02-17T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2012-02-17T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:32:59","slug":"self-published-ebooks-are-the-new-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Self-published eBooks are the new &#8216;Pulp Fiction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read an excellent article today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-16\/why-book-publishing-can-survive-digital-age-echoes.html\">Ellen F. Brown of Bloomberg<\/a>. She describes the history of the publishing and all the &#8216;attacks&#8217; it has absorbed over the years. It seems like with each new method of selling books, the standard policy was to claim publishing is over. Far from it, it evolves.<\/p>\n<p>This article got me to focus on something I have been thinking about for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Self-published, low priced eBooks are very much the way of pulp fiction titles in the 50s.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inexpensive.<\/li>\n<li>New (and generally unknown authors).<\/li>\n<li>Provocative covers.<\/li>\n<li>Frowned upon by traditional publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Some feel the citing and writing is sub-par (not me).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the self-publishing revolution is here to stay. It will continue to get bigger and more respect.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great time to be in book selling and publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an excellent article today by Ellen F. Brown of Bloomberg. She describes the history of the publishing and all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=995\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}