Comments for SIMON WHALEY https://www.simonwhaley.co.uk/ Author | Writer | Photographer Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Legal Deposit by My First Year of Self-Publishing: A Review and Earnings Disclosure – Z-proof Editorial Services, ELT & Academic https://www.simonwhaley.co.uk/legal-deposit/#comment-2825 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:17:15 +0000 http://www.simonwhaley.co.uk/?p=11095#comment-2825 […] Now, if your books are available as ebooks, with their own ISBNs, you can bypass having to order and mail out physical book copies by creating an account with the British Library legal deposit submission portal. This way, you only need to upload your ebook to their portal, and that satisfies the requirements of ALL the Legal Deposit Libraries. The caveat, though, is that not all British Library staff agree that you can do this. One employee told me that because my pdf file for my ebook is not the actual file format that readers will receive, then I couldn’t submit my ebook for the legal deposit requirement. This information was apparently confirmed by their manager. And yet, it is completely counter to what is cited in the blog post here. […]

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