self-publish
verb [ I or T ] uk/ˌselfˈpʌb.lɪʃ/ us/ˌselfˈpʌb.lɪʃ/
(由作者)自行出版
to arrange and pay for your own book to be published, rather than having it done by a publisher
The book is self-published and available from the author. 这本书是自行出版的,可以从作者那里买到。
Having failed to find a publisher he decided to self-publish. 由于找不到出版商,他决定自行出版。
a self-published diarist 自行出版的日记作家
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- She didn't shop her book around to agents or publishers, preferring instead to self-publish it, so she could keep control of her writing.
- He self-published a book of Egyptian short stories he had translated.
- The book was self-published in 1978 under a pseudonym.
- I came across a fascinating, self-published autobiography.