Do You Want To Publish Your Music? (Not An Offer, But A Discussion)

I started to publish my music in Brazil since dezember 2013 (very recent). I've been doing it in a very independent way: there are some publishining companies that accept your uploaded pdf material and sell it by POD (printing on demand). This is a very useful feature here in Brazil, as we are a country without the culture of buying and selling scores (we have to either download it or buy from other countries).

So, I'd like to know about your situation. Is anyone here publishing own scores? What do you thing about it in our era? How is the score-selling background in your location? What means do you have to publish you own score?

I know that Jaap Cramer has published materials, and I "suppose" that Sojar Voglar has something like it. What about other people?

There are a lot of recently graduated, or lesser known composers in my area who have a website and a good printer, or a good local print shop, and just print their own on demand.  They set up their own publishing company to cover the legal business end of things.  (Tax documents, etc.)  They either make a nice website where you can listen to samples and order on-line, or email in an order.  My choir orders things from smaller contemporary composers here and there. Our director always gets a kick out of talking to composers personally and getting to ask them about difficulty level or range of a piece before he orders.  Sometimes he has met a composer at a regional music conference.  Sometimes he's heard one of their pieces somewhere, or one of us has, and he takes the trouble to go find their website.  Sometimes he googles a particular text for SATB and they pop up or he finds them through sites like this.  Do it!  Self-publishing is one of the awesome things about life in 2014.  (: