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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I have some issues with the idea that publishers are as totally corrupt and uselss as some people feel.
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Not "corrupt and useless"-- "obsolete and irrelevant" and increasingly bypassable. You can make whatever arguments for benefits and "value added services" you want (professional marketing, professional editing) but writers
can skip going through a publisher to make their book available, and readers
can skip going through a publisher to pay for a book. And if it
can be done, it
will be done.
As for the "American Dream" red herring, it is simply not possible for me to care less about the founders of a publishing company starting their business hoping to get rich. Just because someone starts a business doesn't mean I'm obligated to use them.