self-publish

American  

[self-puhb-lish] / ˈsɛlfˈpʌb lɪʃ /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to publish or issue (one's own book or other material) independent of an established publishing house.

   The poet plans to self-publish his next work and promote it himself.

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Other Word Forms

• self-publishing
  noun
• self-published
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of self-publish

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

self-publish

It takes time to establish what exactly is happening, but social media is a unfiltered channel where people can easily self-publish lies and nonsense, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

Authors can self-publish their books nearly instantaneously through Amazon and may designate the content as available for the Kindle Unlimited service.

From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2023

The lengthy proceedings inspired MacDougall to self-publish a coloring book on divorce.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023

I started to think it's just going to be one of these things I tell people about and maybe one day I self-publish it or start doing it as a series on Instagram or something.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022

Authors began creating websites to self-publish their work or post it while waiting to find a publisher.

From A Short History of EBooks by Marie Lebert