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Originally Posted by HarryT
Forget the "printing" aspect of books - that's really rather a "red herring". Very few publishers (if any) print their own books, anyway. What publishers do is edit books, publicise them, and 1001 other things that the typical reader is probably completely unaware of. Authors need publishers, and digital distribution doesn't change that.
This isn't "finger wagging", but common sense  . |
I think the correct phrase would be "up until now, authors have needed publishers, and digital distribution might change that or the ways in which they need them, who knows". Again, you can't keep treating the digital domain as an exact analogue of the physical domain. I don't think that publishers are necessarily irrelevant, but that their role and profit model will necessarily change.
And how is telling people they are corrupt and immoral not finger wagging? I think Steve added the implied notion that our brains weren't working at some point in the thread as well.