John Green: why I’ll never self-publish
▻http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/john-green-never-self-publish
"We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. (...)
Authors “need editors and we need publishers and we need booksellers”, said Green, adding that he was not in the “widget-selling” or the “profit-maximisation” business.
“I’m in the book business, the idea-sharing, consciousness-expanding, storytelling business,” said the novelist. “And I am not going to get out of that business. So fuck #Ayn_Rand and fuck any company that profits from peddling the lie of mere individualism. We built this together and we’re going to keep building it together.”