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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Authors have the product, publishers are middlemen.
They have grown too powerful, and are being dis-intermediated as we speak.
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To the extent that they share risk by financing authors through advances and provide various services that help authors bring their books to market, they aren't middlemen: they are investors and co-creators.
The idea that publishers are purely middlemen is that best a misunderstanding and at worst an idealogical stance not based in fact.