About FidlerHouse

FidlerHouse is a private self-publishing enterprise founded by Roger Fidler in 2015 to assist authors who want to independently publish their books. Its services include designing books and covers, formatting manuscripts for print and eBooks, and providing technical support and marketing strategies.

Fidler is a retired journalist and journalism professor with more than five decades of print and digital publishing experience. He is best known for conceiving and pursuing his vision of digital newspapers delivered online and displayed on mobile devices beginning in 1980, which anticipated today’s tablets and smartphones.

He was a 1991-92 Freedom Forum Fellow at Columbia University. In 2004 the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia selected him as its inaugural fellow, and the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism inducted him into its Hall of Achievement. In 2011 the Society of News Design presented Fidler with its Lifetime Achievement Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in media management from Kent State University.

He has self-published four of his own books and assisted five authors with publishing their books since 2015. He has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 2023.