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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Many publishers are now in bad shape and some smaller ones will have to close. I read that even Barnes & Noble is closing many book stores. The independent books stores have been shattered.
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My understanding is that independent bookstores, at least in the US, are
increasing in number.
As for the rest, I would like to see proof that they are failing due to DRM stripping/ebook sharing.
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Another trend is for many authors to skip publishers altogether and have Amazon publish their books. Amazon can even issue print copes as required without having huge printing runs as publishers used to do in the past.
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Not sure how this is killing the publishing industry, as Amazon
is a publisher. If they are doing it better than other publishers, that is the fault of the latter. Perhaps this will spur them to improve.