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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Is it not equally possible that some are grossly over-estimating the value provided? Surely it's mostly a subjective perspective issue?
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It's not all that subjective.
There is publicly available data on the open market cost of publishing services that indicates their value does not come even close to 85% of life of copyright earnings. Especially with the decline is B&M distribution.
The only reason tradpub was ever able to enforce their predatory contracts was their stranglehold on distribution.
Without that stranglehold, there is no justification for the traditionalist revenue distribution regime.
Which is what renders the whole "publishers vs Amazon" sideshow such a mockable farce. All the attention and handwringing over the evil things Amazon might, possibly, someday do, while papering over the inexcusable things that have been going on for decades now. Things that are driving both veteran authors and newcomers to selfpub.
It's not Amazon they should be fretting over; it is the new authors who are no longer querying agents or submitting to publishers that they should be fretting over. Because odds are the next Stephen King or Nora Roberts, when they emerge, is going to laugh them off the premises when they come sniffing around.