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Originally Posted by toddos
Traditional publishers do provide copy editing, typesetting, and marketing that the average author can't or doesn't want to do himself, and those have value.
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They have value, but only as a one-off service paid for with a one-off fee. There is no reason to give away 90% of your income forever just to get those services. Publishers need writers, but writers do not need publishers. As more writers realise that, the publishers will need to come up with better deals.