Book writers and authors know that self-publishing requires a great deal of effort, as well as the responsibility for assuming most of the costs. The payoff, of course, is in the satisfaction of seeing your book hit the bookstores, and, hopefully, even creating a positive return on your investment.

Through the years, many people have avoided investing in self-published books. Many assume the content of self-published works to be amateurish or lacking in literary quality. Thus, it is very rare for self-published books to become best sellers. However, it is not impossible. In fact, numerous books that are now regarded as classics were originally self-published by their authors.

Here is just a list of some of these books. Hopefully this will provide new authors with inspiration and sufficient proof that choosing to self-publish your work does not meant that it will lack in commercial appeal, or be of lesser quality:

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