From the New York Times, no less: "The Rise of Self-Publishing.
Last year, according to the Bowker bibliographic company, 764,448 titles were produced by self-publishers and so-called microniche publishers... This is up an astonishing 181 percent from the previous year. Compare this enormous figure with the number of so-called traditional titles — books with the imprimatur of places like Random House — published that same year: a mere 288,355 (down from 289,729 the year before). Book publishing is simply becoming self-publishing.
The figures don't lie...
