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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Maybe the publishing houses really are something like dinosaurs but that doesn't mean the services they provide are not needed. Maybe some of these services will be moved out-of-house; others will move in.
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Publishers have already outsourced most of their services. Agents now read the slush pile and tell writers to hire editors to edit their work before submission. Copy-editors, cover designers and the like are probably freelance, hired book by book. Most writers are expected to do their own publicity.
For most writers, trade publishing is a losing proposition. They do get books into book stores, but generally the only time it's worth the costs is when your book becomes a best-seller, because no self-published author has reached the Stephen King/JK Rowling level yet. But you're only slightly more likely to get rich from selling hundreds of millions of books than from winning the lottery.