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A new type of bestseller arrives?
The word "bestseller" doesn't mean too much nowadays. "Self-published bestseller" does. William P Young's SPBS, The Shack, has been the "buzz book" in the US for the past 18 months. He typeset the story on his computer and had it bound at the local print shop.
"Is The Shack the Blair Witch Project of the modern book world? Does it demonstrate that with modern e-tools literary talent can find a way around the cumbersome apparatus of the publishing industry? Is it a portent? Probably not."
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