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Originally Posted by rlauzon
We've already done so. The problem is that in the eBook market, publishers are unnecessary middlemen who bring no value to readers. Yet they are the ones who keep demanding that we pay paper price for an eBook.
The future is authors selling directly to, and interacting directly with, their readers.
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Yeah, we've had that discussion. One thing, though: The author still has to get market share, and figure out how to be profitable... something that the independent author is having a lot of trouble doing (especially in a market where profit may ultimately have to come from sponsors or advertisers, since consumers have indicated little willingness to pay what authors seem to believe they are worth).
These are things that middlemen can be very good at securing. They bring value to
authors, when consumers do not. Like it or not, even publishers can have worth if they can at least make authoring profitable for you.