"The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink channels of production, distribution, and access as it applies to the new content. Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries will address multiple aspects of how public and academic libraries can deal with the increase in self-published titles"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- E-book self-publishing and the Los Gatos Library: a case study--- Supporting self-publishing and local authors: from challenge to opportunity -- Do large academic libraries purchase self-published books to add to their collections? -- Why academic libraries should consider acquiring self-published books -- Digital authoring, electronic scholarship, and libraries: from walled garden to wilderness -- Book vendors and self-publishing -- Ingram and independent publishing -- Review sources of interest to librarians for independently published books -- Self-publishing and bibliographic control -- Self-publishing and libraries: the slush pile is the platform -- An indie author in a library world -- The romance of self-publishing -- Alacrity House Publishing -- Self-publishing: a bibliographic essay.