Does self-publishing or using a small publisher change the book writing process?
Poynter: New printing techniques let anyone produce books faster and cheaper, and these techniques are changing the way books are written. Gone are the days of manuscript boxes holding boring sheets of paper with double-spaced lines in Courier typeface. Today, authors “build” their books; writing is just part of the assembly. Building a book is like building a speech with PowerPoint®. In addition to the printed word, you can add digital photos and scanned drawings to your manuscript as you write, pull information from the web, add resource URL’s to your text, search encyclopedias for background information, art sites for illustrations and quotation sites for quotations. With this model, your manuscript looks like a typeset book from the start. Then you can convert the word-processing file to Adobe Acrobat PDF and you are ready to send the file to a POD (print on demand) or PQN (print quantity needed) printer for one or a small quantity of softcover or hardcover books. McLaughlin: What
