Self & Hybrid Publishing
Basics
ALLi Self Publishing Advice Center run by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (baipa.org): An all-volunteer educational organization dedicated to elevating the art of the independent author-publisher. Members include creative people who are involved in various aspects of publishing, linking writers with the services they need to publish and sell their work.
Platforms
Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for books
Amazon’s Kindle Vella for serialized writing
Lulu - An online Self-Publishing Book & Ebook Company (“Publish, print, and sell your books internationally with our Print-On-Demand network”)
RADISH an app for monetizing serialized fiction
Substack for building a subscriber base, publishing and monetizing newsletters with fiction, essays, poetry, art, and much more.
Self-Publishing Services
Wonderlady Books, Ruth Schwartz: Self Publishing consulting and guidance
Hybrid Publishing
What is a Hybrid Publisher: A publisher utilizing an author-subsidized business model for the majority of its business. Hybrid publishing companies behave just like traditional publishing companies in all respects, except that they publish books using an author-subsidized business model, as opposed to financing all costs themselves and, in exchange, return a higher-than-industry-standard share of sales proceeds to the author. A hybrid publisher makes income from a combination of publishing services and book sales.
Hybrid Publisher Criteria by the Independent Book Publishers Association.
Types of Hybrid Publishers (per Jane Friedman)
Editorially curated such as Wonderwell and Greenleaf Book Group.
Assisted self-publishing aka “vanity” publishing.
Traditional publishers with a self-publishing arm.