This section explains what Earth science is and what Earth scientists study. Reading Strategy Categorizing As you read about the different branches of Earthscience, fill in the column with the name of each branch and list someof the things that are studied.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Self-publishing. Self-publishing is the publication of any book or other media by the author of the work, without the involvement of an established third-party publisher. The author is responsible and in control of entire process including design, formats, price, distribution, marketing & PR.
Self-publishing success stories. Probably the most successful of the self-publishers to date is Amanda Hocking. She wrote 17 novels around her day job but they were all rejected by publishers. So, in spring 2010 she began to self-publish them as ebooks.