In January 2010, Nabe announced that he was now self-publishing and coined the phrase "'anti-édition"' ('anti-publishing') to describe his approach. He stated that 'anti-publishing' was a way for an author who had already been published within the literary system to get out of it and create an alternative system. In this sense it would differ from regular self-publishing. Nabe created an online shop to sell his own books, the first of which was the novel "L'Homme qui arrêta d'écrire" ("The Man who Stopped Writing"). The book was shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot, something which had not yet happened to a self-published novel. The prize eventually went to Virginie Despentes. The following year, he self-published "L'Enculé," a novel inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.