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Originally Posted by Todd Young
I figure most aspiring authors will be going down the indie route within a couple of years. At the same time, you'd have to think the slushpile at traditional publishers are getting smaller. Maybe all publishers will end up picking indies from Amazon and elsewhere.
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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People said that iTunes and similar distribution models would end the traditional music business because musicians would be able to record and distribute their own music without having to go through a record company.
But in practice this has only happened at the margins, and often with bands that became known when they were traditionally published. In the vast majority of cases, consumers are still buying music produced by traditional record companies in the traditional way.
I think the same thing will happen with books - big publishers aren't going away because they offer too many important services to authors and consumers. But, at the margins, there will be some additional offerings...especially among authors who already have a following.