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Originally Posted by JamesNunes
What it seems to me is writers will be able to benefit from the greater accessibility of their writings maybe selling directly to the reader on a website and if they're really good have the publishers do the marketing, PR and translation work. In this way the role of the publishers will shift to that of a service provider for the writer. In any scenario we'll see a downward trend in books prices as the operating costs for the whole operation diminishes.
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As Barcey accurately pointed out, publishers ARE resisting the diminishment of their roles, as are the bookstores, and the traditional distribution channels. That's why the development of e-books has been so glacially slow. Their influence is weakening, but still strong. It will probably take an exclusive e-book release of incredible popularity to suddenly convert a major portion of the populace to accepting and reading e-books at once. But in the meantime, e-books will continue to erode the traditional publisher's position in the market, until they are forced to adapt to the new market.
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Originally Posted by JamesNunes
Sorry for any freaky grammar, I'm not a native speaker
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Actually, your grammar wasn't "freaky" at all... it's better than many native speakers!