KiraMinoru
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It can actually cost $0 to self publish. I haven’t spent a single cent self publishing. It’s in fact the easiest thing in the world to self publish these days. Can take you as little as ten minutes to publish a book if you really don’t give a shit. If you don’t set your expectations overly high and think you’re going to become famous overnight, it’s not that bad self publishing at all.A publisher has expertise and connections. Even if an author knows how to get self published, it'll likely be more expensive and generally difficult.
Yeah, advertising in the old sense isn’t the modern day approach anymore. It’s evolved a lot more over the years and is more about the Amazon and Google search algorithms(SEO and whatnot). Also targeted ads through the recommendation spots in Amazon and Google. They can buy the top spot for selected keywords in search results and have them displayed to specific demographics who are more likely to result in a sale. That’s more of the new form of advertising. It’s become far more personalized than useless ads on TV or billboards that target just about any Tom, Dick, and Harry.EDIT: I just realized this man sound contradictory to my earlier comments about publishing companies being good at advertising a book. I still say that may be true, I just never seen many ads personally about a novel but I'm sure there are ways they do get the story "out there".