Thread: What is the greatest threat to the publishing industry?
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Old 08-07-2009, 05:05 PM   #10
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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.
One of the possible business models I can see developing as ebooks become more common is one where the author retains the rights to their work and self-publishes but hires a consulting company to help with things like editing and marketing. In this scenario I don't know if I would call those consultants de facto publishers. A nit picky argument to be sure and it has no bearing of the validity of your statement but it just got me wondering what technically defines a publisher. If they're not the gatekeeper to the presses and bookstore distribution and if they're not given any rights to the works, are they "publishers"?
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