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Originally Posted by Todd Young
In a conference on the future of the book I went to, they basically saw the traditional publisher as a force that is cut out of the new model that is emerging.
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But it seems to me that as a reader you will still want some entity sorting through the mountain of manuscripts and matching your taste in writing with the material at hand. Who really has the time or inclination to wade through it all?
From the writer's end it doesn't look much better. In the this particular moment there is an expectation that as an indie self-publisher, you're the writer, the production house and the marketing staff. But the inefficiencies in that seem so great, and the barriers to any wide awareness of any particular writer's work so high, that I have trouble imagining that this is a model with legs.
This feels like a transitional period that is still pretty far from the end.