DIY publishing
Homemade book production
DIY publishing is producing and distributing written work independently, without traditional publishers.
Authors handle editing, design, printing, and marketing themselves or hire freelancers directly.
The term covers everything from photocopied zines to professionally produced ebooks: She went the DIY publishing route after agents rejected her manuscript.
Also called self-publishing or indie publishing.
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- zinesAmateur self-published booklets
- pamphletUnbound topical booklet
- chapbooksShort literary pamphlets
- ebooksElectronic reading material
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- indie publishingsmall press, indie press, self-published, chapbooks, zines
- underground mediaunderground press, underground newspapers, fanzines, zines, underground newspaper
- pamphletsleaflets, booklets, tracts, brochures, handbills
- Underground Comixunderground press, indie comics