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Originally Posted by caleb72
I'm a indie evangelist myself. I don't know if agency books actually suffered from my passion though. It's not necessarily that they ate into agency sales - more that they added to them.  |
The real damage to agencies is not the dollar amount of lost sales now.
It is the promulgation (to young readers) of the notion that Indy books can be just as good a read and give more of the profits to the author. While paying far less money per book. And, (as with Indie music starting fifteen years ago) this is intentional on my part.
Ultimately, to maintain the price structure they once commanded, they should have to acquire the power to stop independant writers from distributing their work by government enforced decree. Which is unlikely.