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Originally Posted by sirmaru
The best outcome: all authors publish only on Amazon and end up with a bigger take than from their old publishers. Then they do better and the consumers get lower price books.
The old publishers are an ancient custom. No one really needs them or the old buggy and horse shoe manufacturers.
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Yeah, because Amazon does such an amazingly good job of:
- selecting books which are worthy of publication
- editing books so that they have a consistent style / voice
- fact-checking
- clearing copyrights and usages
- designing beautiful text pages
- typesetting beautiful text pages
- re-drawing images so that they represent what the author actually wanted
- hiring illustrators and photographers to make nice covers
Please, I don't see how anyone could describe a descent to all things being self-published as desirable in any way, shape, manner or form.