Of the u. S. Publishing industry once called home, but in recent years, the prominent publishing houses have consolidated, and selfpublishing has exploded in a the publishing houses have consolidated and it has exploded into a lucrative industry in its own right now home to the self publishing book expo celebrating its fifth year in 2013. With the economy, a lot of editors. Their own freelance companies, and a book designers in or out of work and freelancing a lot, and so as a result the industry started to sprout up. And from 2009 until now the number of companies that have started because of some publishing, to meet, is really amazing. You know, the growth of these sort of, you know, little companies that have now grown to be bigger companies, the companies that now on middlemen that help these authors decide which book to use. It was those companies. A lot of traditional people who lost their jobs in the economic turndown found new life with self publishing because now theyre cateri