E-Publishing

I have been e-publishing now for about five years, and Lewis Micropublishing was first set up as an e-publishing framework. Though this form of publishing is poo-pooed by somewhat sweet-lemons academics, I do not agree with their prejudices in this regard. On-line publication opens to the entire world and provides world-wide access to one's work. While it is quite true that anyone and anything can be and is published on line, and there are no boards of censorship yet or need for peer review, the intrinsic quality of anything published on-line is independent of the fact of being on-line or what it may be associated with in the mind of the electronic reader. My works have been on-line for that length of time and have enjoyed growing success. It took the first three years for these works to become networked on the web and to find their way to the top of many search queries of the big name search engines. By far, the largest volume of traffic comes through ten main search engines, the greatest being Yahoo and then Google. I have not needed to pursue active submission of these pages to these engines on a regular basis. They have good content and I believe it is the content that people are looking for.

We are continuously exploring and experimenting with new forums, styles, and forms of on-line digital publishing and this is yielding interesting results. We see on-line publishing as therefore a viable and prospective direction to take one's work, though this should never be done in lieu of hard-copy publishing or instead of pursuing other avenues of publication.

I highly recommend e-publishing some of one's work to anyone, whether one is an unpublished author or a veteran writer with many successful books. It is a good experience over all, and one usually gets nice feedback from people who enjoy reading your stuff on-line.