A string of recent articles are telling tales of the wonders of self-publishing and print-on-demand services. In The Independent, a report by Nicholas Pyke tells the tale of Patricia Ferguson, a well-known author whose It So Happens was rejected by every major publisher in the UK. However, Solidus, a print-on-demand imprint, however, showed interest and published the book, which got several good reviews and is now an Orange Prize contender. As Pyke notes, one reviewer of the book observed that “The trouble with publishing is that with the accountants running things, everything is dominated by how much you last novel sold.” In a related Independent story, Dominic Prince reports on a book called The Pocket Book of Patriotism, which was turned down by six London publishers, only to sell 167,000 copies. And in a Miami Herald article by Sue Corbett, a more charming trend of self-publishing teenagers is identified. 13-year-old Carolina Mayo published a novel she wrote over the summer. Lucky Christopher Paolini, a home-schooled Montanan, self published his novel, Eragon, at eighteen and now has a $500,000 advance from Knopf for his next two books. Eragon sold one million copies and spent 26 straight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.