A roundup of the most interesting literary stories from the Internet

As The Prague Post reported March 16, Stephane Hessel has recently become a French publishing phenomenon when his obscure independently-published political pamphlet Indignez Vous! sold 1.5 million copies in France before being translated into nearly a dozen languages. While Hessel’s example is extremely rare and has become even more so in recent years, when publishing conglomerates exercise increasing power over what the public reads, it is not unheard of that a self-published book gains popularity.