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Marketing: you propose articles to editors |
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No marketing: you write and publish whatever you like |
Important deadlines |
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Disadvantageous contracts |
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No contract |
Your copyright diluted or signed away |
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You retain all rights |
One-time payment in weeks or months (if ever) |
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Payment predetermined |
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Payment open-ended |
Article may be "killed" |
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Publication guaranteed |
Editing: helpful or destructive |
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Errors permanent if not corrected before publication |
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Errors can be corrected any time from anywhere |
Publication in months or years, if ever |
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Publication immediately |
| In-print a week or month to a year | In-print forever | |
| Publisher pays (a lot) for publication | You pay (a little) for publication | |
| Publisher performs most business functions: ad sales, accounting, marketing, distribution, legal | Because you are now a publisher, you perform all business functions, but they are less onerous |
When you publish your own work online, you become a publisher. You take on all the duties, responsibilities and risks of being a publisher, but they are much less onerous, expensive and time-consuming than for print publication.
Your financial outlay and exposure (excluding legal exposure) for online publication is the merest fraction of that for print publication. Instead of tens of thousands of dollars per publication, you'll pay tens or a few hundred dollars per year.
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