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Self-Publishing

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

Self-publishing: is the for-profit publication (hopefully) of books, newsletters, booklets, or other publications by-passing traditional publishing avenues.
You can self-publish just about anything that you can desktop publish. The primary difference is that you are generally self-publishing items which you sell, such as a book you wrote or a subscription-based newsletter. Some self-publishing may be done to supplement another business. Self-published customer newsletters or a free tips booklet is aimed at increasing business or generating sales of other products or services.
Some self-publishers in turn require the services of desktop publishers to do much of the design and production work for the books and booklets they want to self-publish.

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