Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction to Self-Publishing and Collection Development -- 1. E-Book Self-Publishing and the Los Gatos Library: A Case Study -- 2. Supporting Self-Publishing and Local Authors: From Challenge to Opportunity -- 3. Do Large Academic Libraries Purchase Self-Published Books to Add to Their Collections? -- 4. Why Academic Libraries Should Consider Acquiring Self-Published Books -- 5. Digital Authoring, Electronic Scholarship, and Libraries: From Walled Garden to Wilderness -- 6. Book Vendors and Self-Publishing -- 7. Ingram and Independent Publishing -- 8. Review Sources of Interest to Librarians for Independently Published Books -- 9. Self-Publishing and Bibliographic Control -- 10. Self-Publishing and Libraries: The Slush Pile Is the Platform -- 11. An Indie Author in a Library World -- 12. The Romance of Self-Publishing -- 13. Alacrity House Publishing -- 14. Self-Publishing: A Bibliographic Essay -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.