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#1 - Only true if the Agency model will stop, otherwise the price of ebooks can be higher than the price of trade books.
#2 - If I got this right, it will mean that the authors who get most readers from self publishing could get an agent to negotiate a better deal with the publisher. Of course that would also mean that they would have to spend money on the agent, and the good agents will ask for a lot, so in the end we get a shift of profit from the publishers to the agents. And as the publishers still need to make money, books will cost more and the readers will be left with the burden.
#3 - Pure nonsense. So this guy actually suggests that a big author would be able to negotiate a decent contract with a publisher after denying digital rights. As the things that the publishers offer to the author (beside the printing) are editing and marketing, this would mean that the author's agent will try to negotiate a contract where ebook sales would benefit from the publisher's work and wouldn't give the publisher any revenues.
#4 - Another one that wasn't thought through. So any new author will self publish immediately (unless I misunderstood the meaning of "first resort"). As most are bad and/or uneducated by a good editor, the good ones will be buried in a deeper slush pile than last year. But some will make it through and will earn a spot next to Snooki, Justin Bieber and the Kardashians.
5# - Now he's being an idiot. He was saying that the authors wouldn't give ebook rights to the publishers, and now he is talking about the royalties that the publishers will offer.
#6 - Can be summed up to nobody will make much from ebooks, as I can't really see profits coming out of lower prices + oversupply of books + more free books.
#7 - Marketing will have to change to be as effective.
#8 - Such wishful thinking. As the international ebook market explodes, we will have more restrictions, not less.
#9 - Obscurity was always the biggest threat.
#10 - Yes, DRM won't go away that fast.
The biggest problem with DRM is that it does nothing to stop piracy. The files that are being downloaded don't have DRM. That is stripped by somebody that got the book legally. And that means that that person is a customer. So the only thing is that the publishers consider that most people would be too lazy to strip DRM and share it with others.
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