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Originally Posted by Lemurion
It's just too easy to publish these days...
No matter what you think of self-published books (I think the best are great and the worst are terrible), the truth is the numbers have nowhere to go but up.
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I think that big publishers need to change strategy if they want to keep market share.
Many self-published authors that are big sellers because they write well and are willing to undercut the competition in price or even give away some of their books for free.
I think Baen is one publisher that is making the transition well. They give away the first book of a series, somtimes multiple books in a series and have moved toward e-books more. I think more of the big publishers need to do that where possible. Either give back catalog stuff away for free or competitively priced with the self-published authors.
Still, there is really no way to go back now and many authors really like the self published mode more than working with bureaucracy that comes with the bigger publishers.