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Originally Posted by Lemurion
There's no such thing as a "traditional publisher," that's a term invented by a rip-off house in Frederick, Maryland. The proper term is "commercial publisher."
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The authors who really benefit most from independent publishing are those who built up a name with the commercial publishers, then went indie with their backlist. They have the name recognition, which builds demand, so when they do go indie they already have the audience.
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Well, except for even that to be feasible the author must have retained or recovered the rights to those backlist books.
Many are in a situation where the rip-off publisher will not release the book, reprint them nor publish them as ebooks.
And make no bones about it, given the current state of publishing virtually all of the BPH's are playing the Rip-Off Publisher role. And they have been for a while, no different than the music publishers were before they were exposed and done-in by the home recording and digital revolution.