Why Not Self Publish a Book?

[bennesvig]

http://bennesvig.com/post/4551286044/why-not-self-publish-book

[chalst]

The biggest reason to go with a publisher: marketing and distribution are much easier for publishers with a large stable of books and ongoing relationships with resellers than for lone authors.

I said a bit more about this, in the context of ebooks on a writers.sx thread: http://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/1002/publishing-a...