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A very US-centric view as usual.
The really big names among authors will surely not abandon the publishers for the following reasons:
- the global book market is still dominated by paper books. Therefore you need publishers that print books, deliver them to the bookshops and make sure that they are getting nice shelf space.
- the huge influence of Amazon on the book market is very much a US phenomenon (perhaps Canada as well, don't know). The book retail market in other countries is often more fragmented or dominated by bricks & mortar chains. These want paper books as ebooks are still more of a side line
- do authors really want to handle issues like commissioning translations etc. on their own?
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