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As a reader looking not for more books, but for outstanding books, I don't see why I should see anything positive in a new business model.
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new business model is really fitted for cheap genre fiction- that's what most self pubbers do.
Biographies, memoirs, serious fiction-the kind of books that require careful writing, serious research, and considerable resources expended by the author- can't be written under the "new model" . Under the "old model" the number one advantage of a publisher was that the publisher advanced money and resources that enabled writer of "serious fiction or non-fiction" to write books
You don't really write a "Godfather" , a "Sea Biscuit", a "Steve Jobs: A Biography' or a " The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" by pounding out copy in your basement and outsourcing to an editor, a proof reader, and a cover artist. Those kinds of books just won't get written under the new model. That's why those dinosaurs are not ready to shuffle off yet-they make possible the kind of books that are quite frankly a thousand times more important to the society than the latest self pubbed "paranormal romance".