[ OT ] For those of you planning to publish a piece or having already published a piece , what channels do you suggest ? What 's your advice regarding traditional publishing versus internet enabled self publishing ( Kindle ) ?

Well, I'm working on doing some heavy editing of a story before putting it for sale somewhere and designing a decent cover for a finished and edited, much shorter, one. At the moment, I'm only looking at online self-publishing. I do n't have much money going into this so a physical copy is just beyond my reach. 
 
 But on that point, I think Kindle has a `` CreateSpace'' avenue for making physical copies? I do n't know if it's called that anymore however. They will make it and send it out only when it's ordered through them, which means that you do n't have a massive box of books sitting around as you attempt to get rid of them. 
 
 In terms of online, I've looked at Kindle, Smashwords, Bookbaby, and Gumroad so far and the most interesting for me were Smashwords and Gumroad. Kindle looks really complicated for self-publishing personally and Bookbaby wants a couple hundred upfront, no matter the format. I'm sure there's some more out there but those were the ones that I found. 
 
 I like Smashwords so far because it's very author-friendly and you get a pretty big return compared to some other services, like Kindle. They also have many help documents for how to turn your typed file into eBook format. Gumroad is the same in terms of money, you're getting a lot back, but they seem to do a lot of work for you, like turning the document into the proper eBook format and also putting it up on some different sites if I remember correctly. 
 
 I'd love for one of the Ask posts to go over this at some point, it would be extremely helpful.
