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Originally Posted by Shaggy
They can chose to adapt and survive, or choose to remain stagnant and disappear.
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Individual companies can choose to do that. The industry itself cannot.
All the work--after the writing--that goes into a book, from editing, to typesetting, to cover design, to promotion (not to mention fact checking, and other things that are more relevant to certain genres but not others) is not going to get taken up by the author. And it is that work having gone into books--whether eBooks or pBooks--that will continue to separate professional writers from amateur ones.
Whoever handles this work will be de facto a publisher. Even if not a single such company will trace its beginnings back to before 2009.
That's why I do not see
the industry itself having any threats to it.
I certainly would not be surprised if many companies ended up failing to go with the times... but... who cares about that... and why?
- Ahi