You mean like hiring a recording engineer, producer and mastering engineer? And often even a studio?Pakehendrix wrote: Problem with self-publication is all of those steps involved in the proofreading, redrafting, editing stages - they are critical, and usually damned expensive. I really would hate to find that authors had started skipping those steps as a cost-cutting measure...
On a semi-related note, sound often gets completely skipped in TV and video production and yet it's similarly critical to the end product. The only reason production companies here can get away with it is that the broadcasters almost never enforce their own technical standards.
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The last one I bought was from Whitcoulls and it was $34.95 (still about double the price of the eBook though).BG wrote:New release hardbacks are regularly around the 60 buck mark and yes it is extreme when you can download do less than a third.
Cheaper from mighty ape or amazon but then you're not supporting local shops right.