There are plenty of good reasons to choose either traditional or self-publishing.
I went trad. These are MY reasons.

https://esraye.com/2025/06/25/why-im-publishing-gas-giant-gambit-traditionally/

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Why I’m Publishing Gas Giant Gambit Traditionally

One of the things I dislike about the writing community is the negative discourse regarding trad vs self-publishing. We’re all writers, are we not? Of course, I can see where the soreness com…

E.S. Raye

Glad to see an attempt to shake things up. Hopefully some good things come out of it.
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Article: Three Publishing Veterans Form a New House, Authors Equity (publishers weekly)
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/94507-three-publishing-veterans-form-a-new-house-authors-equity.html

Three Publishing Veterans Form a New House, Authors Equity

Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke, and Don Weisberg have joined forces to form a new publishing company. As its name implies, the publisher will operate outside of traditional publishing business models.

PublishersWeekly.com

Were you aware that there are only 5 Big traditional publishers in the U.S.?

Yeah, me too--and yet, how often do we really think about what that means for published books and published authors across the board?

Becky Spratford lays it out here:
http://raforall.blogspot.com/2023/05/big-five-imprints-infographic.html

The infographic itself (not sure how accessible to blind readers it is, I'm sorry):
https://almossawi.com/big-five-publishers/

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Big Five Imprints Infographic

Whether you realize it or not, much of what we do in libraries is inexorably tied to the Big 5 publishers, and specifically to the fact that...

Author Jennifer Iacopelli posted this short thread to twitter, and boy, some facts!

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