Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Today we’ll hear from someone inside the traditional publishing world. This was emailed to me from a member of an established New York publishing house. Aside from working in publishing, he’s also been conventionally published himself. I know it’s unfortunate, but I’ve been asked to conceal his name. He doesn’t want to anger the publishing company that employs him. That’s fine, I understand. I’m just glad to have a viewpoint from inside the machine.
Anyhow, here is his insight, after being presented with my questions:
I …

Part 1. Part 2.
Today we’ll hear from Levi Montgomery, a self-published writer who also blogs at The Write Rants. Levi was gracious enough to allow me to post his opinions here, and I appreciate it. So, without further ado:
The biggest single barrier to the wide-spread acceptance of self-published books is the staunch voice of the traditional publishing industry, crying in the wilderness: “But you need us! We protect you from the riff-raff!” The argument is that the industry performs a valuable service, acting as a gatekeeper to the public …

Part 1 can be found here. I said there that I had some ideas for methods to make self-published e-books a “legitimate” way to publish a book, specifically with regard to listing self-published e-books as items on a resume. Here are the options, as I see them. They all have their drawbacks and advantages – I’ve listed them all in order to be as complete as possible, not to advocate them all.
In order to make this article itself a little more legitimate, I also emailed several people in various …