ABSTRACT
Collaborative Indie Fiction Publishing
Ghazali Bunari, Faizal Yamimi Mustapha, Rohayah Kahar
For new writers, getting their stories published is
time-consuming and can often be a frustrating experience. Guided collaborative
indie publishing gives emerging writers an alternate platform to get published.
In 2004, an indie publishing group named Sindiket Sol-jah invited the public to
participate in an indie publishing project. The purpose of this project was
to provide a platform for new writers to experience the process of publishing
their own works. The group has successfully published four short story
anthologies since. This paper presents a case study that describes the collaborative
publishing model used by the group in for their project. The group has extensively
used the social media as a medium to manage the process of publishing. It guided
writers through the process of publishing up to the sales of books. As a result,
the writers involved experienced the whole publishing process from drafting their
ideas to selling the books to readers. The implementation of collaborative
indie fiction publishing has not just encouraged the culture of writing but
also inculcate in the writers the awareness of market for their works.
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