was  who forgot to log in With the advent of personal computers and the internet the third way you talk about has become much more viable than in the olden days of typewriters and photocopy machines Just look at what the third way is doing to the music industry That said looking at selfpublishing as a whole I believe your success still represents a statisticallyrate exception  As far as POV if it aint NPOV correct it Thats what Wikipedia is all about Recognize though that writing about a subject with a perfectly NPOV can appear to have a biased POV to someone with a stake in the subject