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Originally Posted by carld
That's a lot of IF's in your original post leebase. I expect that such situations are very rarely, if ever, the cause of high book prices. I think the reality is just what a lot of us suppose it is, publishers trying to wring every dollar they can out of an outdated pricing model while they still can.
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Who needs the services of a publisher?! Surely one need only to put ones book on sale at Amazon for $1 and you can quit your job the next day and be a full time writer.
ok, back to reality. He can't quit his job because he isn't making enough money self publishing. Others have, sure. Very few compared to the many that try.
But IF he was picked up by a publisher who would advance him enough money that he could quit his job. THEN his readers would have access to his books that wouldn't even exist if he had to support himself with a regular job and could only write occasionally.
So the publishers high priced books are PROVIDING his work to his readers and that's so much better than the few cheap books he can produce by himself.
Lee