单词 | self-publishing |
释义 | self-publishingn. The process or policy of preparing and issuing a piece of one's own work for sale or distribution.In quot. 1869 of a corporate author. ΚΠ 1842 Baltimore Phœnix & Budget Jan. 395/2 Even with an ordinary share of the business tact which characterises some few authors..the success of self-publishing would have been exceedingly hazardous. 1869 Pharmaceut. Jrnl.& Trans. Sept. 182 It was on the ground that self-publishing was the cheaper plan of the two that the Committee recommended its adoption. 1943 Pittsburgh Courier 11 Sept. 7/3 I think I have shown that there is not only no stigma to self-publishing but that it can be made into a success. 1996 Res. Afr. Lit. 27 98 Some Malawian writers have opted for self-publishing. 2013 J. Lanier Who owns Future? xxxii. 354 Self-publishing can yet become a more friction-free experience than it is today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-publishingadj.ΚΠ 1869 R. W. Emerson in Proc. 2nd Ann. Meeting Free Relig. Assoc. 43 Nothing really is so self-publishing, so divulgatory, as thought. 1895 Evening Post (Denver) 20 Mar. 3/1 Such slow crucifixion of self is centuries behind our hurried, self-publishing age. 1898 Univ. Rec. 4 Mar. 393/2 Many..assert..that Christianity has now become organized into our social, domestic, economic and political institutions, thereby becoming self-publishing. 2. Of an author, editor, etc.: that publishes his or her own work. ΚΠ 1910 M. C. Crawford Romantic Days in Old Boston iv. 88 William Lloyd Garrison..graduated, at the age of twenty, from an apprenticeship [in a printing office] into the position of a self-publishing editor. 1959 Trace Oct. 1 I record the details, to give other self-publishing writers some practical guides. 1973 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 21 Oct. 44/4 Self-publishing poets, as a group, tend..to be rather sadly matter-of-fact about their chances in the marketplace. 2015 J. Koerber & M. P. Sauers Emerging Technol. ii. 23 For libraries, there are pros and cons both to buying self-published works and providing services to support self-publishing authors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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