Posted this as a joke and mod freaked out . I thought it was fairly obvious that I was kidding . kill yourself , u notbakchodestofal . We are going to raid rindia whether you like it or not . <| sep |> Once you are published by someone else , for even one copy , even once , you are no longer Self Published . Learn business . Once you let someone else put the contractual reigns on you , it doesn ' t matter how much you do all by yourself , your autonomy is gone . That ' s how business works . The instant Sony had any role in the publication there was a contract for specific performance that Hello had to meet , or they would be facing Sony in court or paying penalties for nonperformance . Being self published is like being a virgin . Once they got into bed with Sony their Self Published maidenhead was gone and they were virgin no more . If you had even a single iota of business experience you ' d know this . It ' s not a matter of the time spent in bed or percentage of market share . It ' s not fractional . The obligation to a third party exists , or it does not exist . The instant they signed on that dotted line they had a publisher other than themselves and so they were not self published even if they published most , or even almost all copies themselves . So I admit it . You think I ' m wrong because you have no business experience .