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Old 10-17-2010, 08:06 PM   #111
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
Those are both published by the writers, and not all writers seem to be confident enough to do that. Once you add on agents, editors, designers, publishers, etc, you add extra mouths to feed. Not all of them will add anything of value to the reader, but they will still all want their cut.
I believe Mal said it best :

‘Bout 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated.



Kinda defines the reasons behind the music industry's (and now the publishing industry's) refusal to get with the times. Perfectly rational if you think about it.
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