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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I'd amend #2: It won't be agents writing the next chapter of ebooks, it'll be marketers; those who help writers who can produce good work, but need help piercing the fog of obscurity and getting noticed in the market.
I suspect a lot of agents will either become, or be replaced by, marketers who will serve the authors directly, and offer many of the promotional services that publishers claim is their primary service.
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I'd argue that to a large extent it's marketers calling the shots
now. The excess weight given a book's marketability over its quality skews the market toward known names and celebrity tripe.