What is pluralistic ignorance and what is its impact? How does the connected society address it? What could we do with books to address it?

"What's hard about preparing a book for distribution to a wider audience along all the channels they describe in Chapter 12?"
Barrier to entry may be low, but creating a book that looks professional and is indistinguishable from a book published by a "real" publishing house is very difficult and requires a minimum investment of a few thousand dollars. It's hard to get everything just right (if you're a novice at book formatting, Microsoft Word will become your worst enemy). And once you've finally received that final proof, you feel it could be slightly better.

I want to focus on a few lines from the reading. "Before the Internet came along, most people rarely wrote anything at all for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college." pg48. It is very hard for people from our day an age to grasp how little people wrote before the internet. Now however there are scores of writings of all types from blogs, to books, to articles. So much that its hard to imagine how it all came about just from introducing the internet into our daily lives.

From the APE book . I believe that chapter 3 is very important. "The Self -Publishing Revolution" to me, is very applicable, especially for me. Its lays out all of the step sin a simple easy to follow many. It gives many pros, then explains the. It follows that up with the cons and explains those all well. I am writing my own book and need to start looking into publishing and if I want to publish my own book or not.
It made it seem so easy that even a baby could do it.

" The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes." Quote by Annie Dillard.