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Originally Posted by plib
Well, that's one way of looking at it, and for your sake I hope you're right. However the other way of looking at it is that you're a given, you'll buy pretty much no matter what. It's the guy who isn't buying the book who is limiting the publisher's income. So out will come the spreadsheet doing a cost/benefit breakeven analysis on cutting costs and dropping prices in return for increased volume, and getting that guy to open his wallet.
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I think the likelihood is that the BPHs will simply cut back on expenses. Its a lot easier to save money by simplying cutting staff and by reducing advances to authors. Also you don't develop new authors ( risky and expensive) and you don't greenlight expensive non-fiction projects (same).
I note that every single author you cited in an earlier post was an author of genre dfiction. That alone is a telling indicator of what a non-BPH world would look like.