Problems with Publishing Books In the year of 2009, only 5% of books that were getting published at the time were being done by educational institutions such as universities, colleges, and schools. “21% of the books were self-published by authors (Statistics for 2009)”. The type of publication that was done the most was 52% which was being done by publishing houses. With more and more authors making stories or telling them from that year to recent years, there’s a need for proper publication
According to Joseph Epstein, publisher of 14 books, about 80,000 books are published every year. Obviously all the books aren't published through the same company, if all books were published through the same company, then there wouldn’t be as many books in the world as there are now. Getting one book published may not seem very hard, but when there are thousands of people writing books, the demand for getting books published is very high. People have found other ways to publish their books without