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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
There are more creatives now than ever before.
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No, there is the same number. The difference now is that they don't just give up at the first rejection letter. There's no knowing how many good writers were lost to society forever because of traditional publishers and their profit driven agenda.
Publishers will still exist in the future, and will probably dangle contracts in front of the more successful self-publishers to entice them into selling their souls. And a lot of those self-publishers will be more than happy to do so.
In the old days, vanity publishing involved spending your own money to have a book published. Now, vanity publishing involves giving away 90% or more of your income to have a book published.