>>>>>>>> LOL. The sentence was "And "ootsie" is not a word". What illogic
>>>>>>>> you exhibit Liz.
>>>>>> "This woman" is known for having researched words. She's a published
>>>>>> author.
>>> Depends. If one copy of the book was bought (even if it was by the
>>> author) then, technically, it is a true statement, albeit trivally so.
>> Naaah. "Published" implied "published formally, by a publishing
>> company." She's _self_-published, a totally different animal
>> altogether. No one who is self-published can claim to be a "published
>> author," since that carries the connotation that some company thought
>> enough of the work to actually risk their money on it. Which in this
>> case is not true.
>
> To bring the subject closer to your own problems, "God" is called
> "omniscient." Does that make him so?
>
> Anyone can form a company, and in forming one, can state on the
> corporation papers that the primary business is "publishing." The
> company may have nothing to do with printing or binding books - that
> work can be out-sourced to a printer. "Publish" means to distribute
> information broadly to the general public and that is all that it
> means. That is why a minister reading words from a book at a wedding
> is said to be "publishing the bans of marriage." S/He is simply
> addressing the public.
>
> Those people you complain of "self-publishing" are publishers. That
> is far, far different from vanity publishers.
>
> "Vanity publishing" is a predatory industry that pretends to publish
> but does not. Every writer's how-to booklet will tell you that much
> about the business. It is also called "subsidy publishing." Vanity
> publishing houses are borderline con artists. They print a few copies
> of the book, charge far too much for the work, pretend to try to place
> the book with marketers, often just enough to meet contractual
> obligations, and do not return value for value. That is a sad
> business.
>
> Many a newspaper editor throughout the history of America was self-
> published. Thomas Paine was self-published. In little towns all over
> the country, editors would write stories and commentary in regular
> issues and sell the papers to keep the business going. And nobody
> sneered at them as you do at the ladies.
>
> In the nineteenth and early twentieth century it was common for
> legitimate authors, if they could afford to, to pay the costs of
> publishing their books. Such writers could expect more control of
> their work, greater profits, or both. Self-publishing was not judged
> negatively as it has been more recently. Among the authors taking this
> route to publication was Lewis Carroll, who paid the expenses of
> publishing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and most of his subsequent
> work. Such authors as Mark Twain, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl
> Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe,
> Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Anais Nin also
> resorted to self-publication for some or all of their works. It is
> worth noting, however, that despite the well known names on this list,
> not all of them were successful in their publishing ventures. Mark
> Twain's, for example, led to bankruptcy. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_publishing
>
> But you should know all of that. You are just being cruel and
> sadistic. Such is your nature, and nobody should criticize you - you
> are just being your worthless self. You are being sincere - in your
> mean, destructive, negative, evil way.
>
> TCross
>
>
