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Originally Posted by Katsunami
So... how do they expect to keep writers publishing through their company, in an age where everybody who owns a computer that is less than 10 year old can be his own publisher if he wants to?
If a well-known writer gives his publisher the finger and sets up shop on his own personal site (literally: running a webshop is relatively trivial nowadays), he can sell his books for less than what they would normally cost, and after paying the operational costs of the site, he gets to keep all the money.
Who actually said that? Scribd is not a pirate site, but it can be used as such by submitting works to it for which you don't have the copyright. Sometimes, they get through... for a time.
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The big advantage is that commercial/traditional publishers have the ability to market and place books in stores a lot easier. They also used to have better editing cover design (....ect) but that isn't always the case now.
It is still unique to be able to make a living publishing your own books. Many of the ones who do went through traditional publishers at one point and gained a following that way.
So, there are not a lot of authors making big money completely self published and fewer still that never was published through a tradtional commercial publishing company.