CNET Executive Editor Defends Self-Publishing

Despite his agent’s advice, the executive editor of CNET Reviews self-published his first novel.

In a CNET essay, David Carnoy describes why he took his thriller Knife Music to BookSurge after running a Consumer Reports-style analysis of the major print-on-demand companies.

In his quest, Carnoy also utilized Amazon’s pricey but interesting “Buy X, Get Y” feature–a key part of Amazon’s power in the self-publishing market. Read Carnoy’s insights here:

“I worked on it for several years, acquired a high-powered agent, had some brushes with major publishers, then, crickets. … Against the advice of my agent, I began perusing the big self-publishing companies’ Web sites and evaluating what they had to offer.”

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