Gadfly wrote:I guess I am missing something..............It STILL looks like something where you have to BUY stuff: editing, formatting services, etc. Then it appears that AFTER you do all that, then there is STILL the problem of marketing the book which still appears to be done by the author himself!No, you don't have to buy anything. I put the 1974 Inventory of Abandoned Railroads in NYS up on their service without paying a dime. These two: http://www.lulu.com/content/2236031 http://www.lulu.com/content/2604306 . I put them there specifically to reprint them for Michael Kudish's sake. He's definitely a print reader, not an online kinda guy.
Kudish never gets called a foamer because he's always chasing where the trains used to go, so there's nobody there to see him foaming.
Same goes for me.
Now, not ALL of them are like that, but some of the militant fans DID manage to get on. Problem was, they came with all these pre-conceived notions of how the job was to be done, and neither the line employees nor the managers could tell 'em anything. They read in one of the fan magazines, that was the way it was, and that was final.......................until the boss told them to "hit the road and don't let the door hit you in you-know-where"! 
We had one that hired on as a clerk (I told you about him earlier) and just wouldn't listen to ANYBODY. His main trouble was, he could not sit still and DO 
Railroad managers have long memories, and once an impression is made, it is rarely erased!
