Responding to a series of articles speculating that the “self-publishing bubble” is set to burst, author and industry professional Nathan Bransford has decided “We’re not in a bubble. This is not a temporary blip.”
Comparing the surge of self-published authors out there to the surge in blogs which popped up over the last decade, Bransford pointed out that people trying to write books is nothing new.
On his blog, he wrote: “There are sooo many people who are writing books out there. There even more who want to write a book and believe they have a book in them. There are thousands upon thousands of unpublished manuscripts out there and even more in progress.”
Bransford concluded that while blogging was “a blip,” writing books will remain a big industry. He offered this advice for readers and writers: “Get used to the self-publishing boom. We’re just getting started.”