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Old 08-29-2010, 05:21 AM   #126
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
You can take that one step farther and say "cut the publisher out completely and take it all."

The problem is simple: you can self publish, but how do you reach that market that might be interested in reading your books sell to them?

While you can argue that they don't do it well, selling books is what publishers and retailers do.

If you want to make your living writing (or even a significant fraction of it), you still need a publisher and retailers in the loop, and are likely to for the foreseeable future.
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