The P.O.D. of Christmas Past: Self-Publishing in 1843 By Steve Anderson

Published on December 23, 2021

Does this sound familiar? Traditional publishers won’t take a chance on an author’s new book, so he decides to publish it himself. He works late into the night, barely pausing to eat, scrambling to finish his new project while keeping up with existing deadlines. He writes a groundbreaking novel in just six weeks, gets it into the bookstores – and almost immediately, cheap knockoffs start showing up down the street.
That’s life in the twenty-first century, right? Except, it wasn’t. It was 1843.