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Originally Posted by stonetools
Once again, you have to be realistic about these things. Authors and publishers have been having disputes since the year dot. The difference today is the Internet.
Most authors are happy enough with their publishers, and resolve their few disputes "in house": but let an author disagree with her publisher and put out her screed on the Net and its broadcast and rebroadcast by Techdirt,Teleread, The Konrath, and various other forums with an axe to grind against the "BPHs".
Publishers are constrained by custom and the law from telling their side. They can't say, "The author's offering was a pile of crap that no amount of editorial polishing or marketing could make into a success". So their side gets untold.
Its best to have a sense of proportion about this. The poll ends with the question:
If you are writing in 5-10 years, will you still have a traditional publisher? .
48.4 % said yes, 13.8 % No
Sounds like a lot of writers are still OK with trad publishers (and agents).
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There are some things that traditional publishers do well. They have the manufacturing and distribution channels. For most who are eschewing the traditional publisher, they're having to go completely digital, and not everyone wants to do that yet.