John T. Reed’s self-publishing blog

Copyright 2011 by John T. Reed I am an investigative journalist I am a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association and I have attended a number of their training programs. I am a journalist and specifically in the category of what is called “the working press” in the business. That means I make my full-time income from non-fiction writing, frequently about current events or particular individuals who do not want the story in question written about them. I have described investigative journalism as being to other types of journalism what target shooting is to combat. In investigative journalism...

Many visitors to this Web site have asked me why I do not sell my books on Amazon any more. For twenty years, from 1981 through 2001, my books were sold in book stores nationwide and, when they came into being, by Amazon.There are a number of reasons. Many are explained in my book How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Own How-To Book. Here are some of those and others. Middlemen like Amazon take too big of a cut Mainly, middlemen like Amazon, distributors like Publishers Group West and Ingram, and publishers like Simon & Schuster, take too big...