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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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Things adapt. If tomorrow every single book retailer shut, and every author out there had their own website...
How long do you think it'd be before a site appeared for people to review books on?
As soon as that happens, there's your new middle man. Authors might give them a cut, or not, they make their money entirely from advertising. I couldn't predict how it would work, but I'm certain that middlemen would appear, and that they are worthwhile.