ABSTRACT
Without publishers per se, with no advertising, and with limited means of replication and distribution, how did the classical writer publish his work? In this chapter, I discuss the intermediate stage between the time the author feels the work is done and when it gets into the hands of an independent reader via a friend, a library, or a bookseller-the subject of the next chapter. I discuss the actual process of writing in Part 3, ‘Writing habits of the literate’.
