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Nothing has changed except perception. Twenty-five years ago Mills and Boon claimed to receive up to twenty-thousand unsolicited manuscripts per month. In my wife's area, she gets one thousand to fifteen hundred unsolicited per month and her company is relatively small and doesn't publish novels. It you factor in all publishers, world wide, then you will have a total unsuccessful writer figure possibly not too different to the hundreds of thousands who ePublish and don't get sales. The real difference is in advances - they have really dropped. More people than ever are reading - thank to eReaders and "the digital revolution" plus the massive numbers of Baby-Boomers retiring and taking up leisure activities - like reading. Demand is up, I can't see supply being deliberately dropped.
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