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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Publishers charge authors 75-95% of a book's income for doing all that, including features an author may not need. (Some authors can do their own formatting better than the publisher.) Authors who aren't willing to give up that percentage are looking for other options.
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What the monetary split is between publishers and authors is a matter for them to hash out; it is irrelevant to me as a reader. (Though I do think you severely underestimate the importance of the publisher.) All I care about as a reader is that I have something to read that, first, meets minimum standards of quality, and that's why I only consider books from actual publishers.
If you want a filter for the glut of self-published books, well, we have that already too: the publishers and literary agents. I seriously doubt self-publishing is the first choice of a writer. He or she has most likely already been rejected by literary agents and/or publishers. And I don't even have to pay separately for that filtering process!