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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It's a viscous circle. Who's gonna break it?
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Author/publishers. By refusing to sign away their assets and prospering.
The authors signing the predatory contracts are focused on validation, not economics. If they're willing to be paid in validation instead of cash, so be it.
But over time the number of authors doing so is going to decline, if nothing else because the corporate publishers are going to be signing up less of them, even when willing. The trends are for less midlist releases with lower advances and many (if not most) of those being ebook only. The bulk of the BPHs' focus is going to go to their established name authord.