by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Fortunately, the olden days of being a self-published writer are over. Those days involved keeping large quantities of paperback novels in your garage or closet or even carrying them in the trunk of your car as John Grisham famously did for his first book (he had a small publisher instead of self-publishing…but the distribution wasn’t there).
Today, it’s all about POD, print on demand. Amazon’s KDP Print (formerly CreateSpace) and IngramSpark wait until there’s an order from a reader to print a book. No inventory or storage required.
Because it’s so easy, it’s also easy for me to get very absent-minded about my own personal inventory.Continue reading