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Originally Posted by Zedd
ahhh....but what if all publishers did the same thing?
Where do you go?
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You go into business for yourself if you have the resources for it, or with fellow authors to pool resources and experiences, or form a union of authors to give you some collective bargaining power...
I think, on balance, that publishers need authors more than authors need publishers - especially with the internet broadening the ability of the creators of material to reach their audiences with fewer intermediaries... We're probably not quite there yet - but I'm pretty sure we'd get there more quickly if most authors started self-publishing, publishing only in e-book format or doing some serious collective bargaining with publishers...