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| Acceso en línea: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ972570 |
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- Self-Published Books: An Empirical "Snapshot" Bradley, Jana Fulton, Bruce Helm, Marlene Writing for Publication Personal Autonomy Fees Empowerment Electronic Publishing Publishing Industry Comparative Analysis Bibliographic Databases Access to Information Technological Advancement Delivery Systems Web Sites Models Authors Role Library Services Decision Making The number of books published by authors using fee-based publication services, such as Lulu and AuthorHouse, is overtaking the number of books published by mainstream publishers, according to Bowker's 2009 annual data. Little empirical research exists on self-published books. This article presents the results of an investigation of a random sample of 348 books from a total population of 385,173 titles available from ninety-three fee-based publication services in 2008. Major findings include publication patterns within the nontraditional publishing industry, availability of self-published titles online and in libraries, state of bibliographic and cataloging control, and subject content of self-published books. The findings provide a baseline "snapshot" of books available from publication services in 2008, a time when the self-publishing industry was established but was still small enough to study overall. The article concludes with implications for librarians from this study of self-published books. (Contains 12 tables and 6 footnotes.)