Self-publishing is the process of publishing a work by the author with the assistance of an established publishing company. The work itself could be just about any form, including books, magazines, digital media, (such as e-books and websites), albums, pamphlets, brochures, video content, or uploading images to a website.

Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author without the involvement of an established publisher. With the self-publishing model, the author controls everything. They may do it themselves or outsource some of it. The author handles all of the marketing.

What are some of the biggest websites on the Internet? Amazon KDP & ACX, Apple Books, Barns and Noble Press, Rakuten’s kobo and Google Play Books are some of the biggest.

If you are self-publishing a work, you might try one of these platforms that will distribute your work to many of the big publishers on the Internet. These publishers are called aggregate publishers. They are IngramSpark, lulu.com, Draft to Digital, PublishDrive, Smashwords, and others. Understand that these aggregate publishers will want to take an additional cut from your paycheque.

In all cases, make sure that you retain 100% of your copyrights.