Life was basically very difficult for any freelance publisher writer operating in the offline days. I know because I was one for many years. Being freelance means freedom, but there is always a very high price to pay for that freedom.

Who is a freelance publisher writer? This is basically a self publisher. Or a writer who publishes their own writing.

Even with my special knowledge on printing that cut down my production costs to less than half of what everybody else was paying in those offline days of my business, life was still very much of a daily struggle for survival. With the benefit of hindsight, what I can say is that there was just too much to do for the offline freelance publisher writer to be a viable preposition. There are of course many a freelance writer publisher who made it big in those days. But it is instructive that a vast majority of self publishers ended up selling their books to big book publishers at the first opportunity. This trend continues to this day.

Why The Freelance Publisher Writer Thrives Online

Then the World Wide Web came calling. At first it offered no special advantage to the freelance publish writer. Then suddenly without any warning, drama. Blogs burst into the scene and all of a sudden everything changed. To many a freelance publisher writer, like myself, it was too good to be true and it was feared that this was yet another of those fads that come and go on the net. A little like the ebooks fairy tale that disappeared in smoke like it had never existed.

Fortunately blogs had arrived to stay and to date have played the biggest role in revolutionizing the web. Gone were the days when a freelance publisher writer would have to wait to register a domain and spend a couple thousand dollars to build and design their web site. They would do all this only to find that they needed to pay more to promote their freelance publisher writer's web site to get any decent traffic.

The happy situation for the online freelance writer publisher now is that they simply need an idea. The next part is much easier. They can then set up a blog (an exercise that will take a few minutes - 10 minutes at the most) and immediately begin to write and post articles.

If they understand the basics of blogs, and their idea is sound, chances are high that within a few short weeks, the site will have a huge regular traffic and it will already be generating an excellent income for the freelance publisher writer.

If blogs were not created for the freelance publisher writer, I do not know who they were created for.