Issue is not fiction or non-fiction. The issue is about the size of the market. Small, "peripheral" societies are going to get increasingly squeezed out of the publishing market. To cope, we need to find alternative mechanisms.
Goa is producing a diversity of writing (mostly non-fiction) via the self-publishing route. I see no other way all these books could have been published. For someone who believes in promoting a diversity of voices, self-publishing (together with the technology that lowers the entry-barrier) is certainly not a bad word to me. Looks like a whole lot of issues are getting mixed up, conveniently, here. Plagarism, copyright, "self-plagarism", and now self-publishing. Give the dog a bad name and shoot it? FN On 24/03/07, Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In certain contexts like the one Frederick has mentioned self-publication is inevitable. But in other contexts it is a mechanism for publishing worthless, often plagiarized material with no literary or educational value. I am particularly referring to non-fiction here.
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