Re: Off-topic on publishing (was: Re: Signature book)

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R. Tennenbaum:
>Not necessarily welcome news for writers, btw. (Sorry for going far
>afield, but there are a number of us here.) Authors and putatives
>should be aware that it's apparently becoming harder and harder to get
>back the rights to one's book from a publisher: "out of print" no
>longer has any connotation. Instead, the deal with electronic book
>publishing is apparently to offer royalties at the same percentage as
>hard books -- even though, of course, the overhead is a mere fraction
>of book printing and distribution.

But... with hardware developing the way it does, could you not simply
become your own publisher?

--Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
--"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the -if he-
--if 'is' means is and never has been that is not -- that is one thing.
--If it means there is none, that was...true." Bill Clinton, 8/17/98