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Originally Posted by david_e
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The book stores and BPH aren't obsolete but they are facing declining market share and they're going to continue to be challenged to demonstrate value for $.
Authors aren't unique, they're small business people that are hoping to create a market, grow their brand and become a large business. They have to follow industry best practices to create a quality product and they need to effectively market it. They need financial backing to perform all this. If they have the skills, resources and drive to do all this themselves they can. If others provide valuable more cost effective services they can use them. If they want to do nothing but write they can but that plan doesn't make many successful small businesses and there will be vultures happy to collect the majority of the profits.