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Old 01-27-2011, 09:19 AM   #17
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So, the author will be hiring an editor up-front, before she starts making any money on the book? And possibly hiring a publicity specialist to promote her book to encourage more people to check it out?
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In the future, to be a writer won't be enough for being an author.
Authors, to survive, will have to learn editing, publishing, typesetting and promoting techniques.
They will be selected by a darwinian process, like every other profession in the world.

The rich, of course, will have a couple of employees to do the job....
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