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Old 07-20-2010, 06:17 PM   #6
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Prognosticating here based on not much but my own opinion, but I expect the big publishers to join the newspapers music industry in their death march in the next few years. Some of them will hang on as there will always be a market for paper books, but I think they'll end up smaller and less influential. Ebooks and self-publishing are the future, maybe not the immediate future but they're coming.
Strong advice: if you are a writer looking to make your living writing books, do not assume you can do it via self-publishing.

The tools are there to publish your own work, but connecting to your market, letting them know you exist, and actually selling your work is another matter. You can justifiably argue that they don't do it well, but actually connecting to the market and selling books is what publishers do.
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