We have no real choice. Self-publishing means that the book doesn&#x27;t count at all in the CV for grant applications, tenure applications, etc. Only the very top scientists that no longer have to fight for all these things can afford to make that &quot;personal choice&quot;. For the rest, it&#x27;s suicidal.<p>I also have a book at a major publisher, with an outrageous price, and when I saw it &quot;pirated&quot; I only felt joy at the fact that more people will get to read it and thus my work is more meaningful. And I also downloaded it myself, because I actually didn&#x27;t have it in PDF, only in physical form.