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Originally Posted by gmw
It seems to me that publishers, by offloading so much of their once traditional work back to agents and authors, have stopped providing the same value-add that they once did. By reducing that value-add they are also reducing their importance to the process. If they wanted to become simple printers of pbooks they've gone the right way about it.
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Exactly, they have farmed out virtually everything other than rights management and distribution.
This is at least a major part of why they are in such a dire position.
There is a great yahoo discussion of this sort of thing captured in book form (free) "Be the Monkey" here:
http://www.barryeisler.com/ebooks/ebooks-buy.php
It's available in a zip file that includes mobi, epub and pdf.