I recently managed to generate some controversy in the usually quiet and conservative world of CanLit by publishing a book.

The book itself isn't controversial -it's the way I decided to put it out.

I self-published it as an ebook. Or rather, I republished it as an ebook. The book, Please, was my first novel and was originally published as a paperback by Vancouver's Raincoast press a few years back. It went on to do wonderful things, including winning the ReLit prize for Canada's best alternative novel. So when it went out of print, the logical thing would have been to find another publisher and get it back into bookstores, not self-publish it as an ebook, right?

Well, maybe. A lot of other people certainly thought so. I received messages telling me I was mad, that selfpublishing is for wannabe, amateur writers only, that ebooks are killing "real" books and that such a move will hurt my career.

I think the critics are wrong. Why? Because of the ebook revolution.

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