Dosdoce.com and Biografías Personales prepared the study “Autores independientes: La irrupción de la Revolución Indie”, exploring the impact of auto-publishing in the publishing industry.

“Auto-publishing is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, in the XIX and XX centuries was a common practice; We can not ignore that Dostoevsky borrowed money from friends to pay for his books (one of the pioneers of crowdfunding, by the way); Nietzsche paid out from his pocket 50 copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and that Lewis Carroll made the same with Alice in Wonderland, like Marcel Proust, Alexander Dumas, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Edgar Alan Poe, George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Hemingway.”

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