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Old 11-02-2014, 06:53 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Some of you guys really do grossly underestimate the value that publisher provide authors and for that matter, readers. Perhaps another business model will pop up and someone will provide the same services that a publisher does, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be Amazon. They don't even bother to do quality control on their own books database.
I am a reader.
I buy a lot of indie books.
Most of them are well edited, and as I participate in kickstarter fundraisers for the books often I can say that editing and cover art can be had for $1,500 or less. Jim Zoeteway has a kickstarter for the next two Legion Of Nothing novels now.

I have seen a lot of SF series never appreciably marketed over the decades. I would go to special order something and a bookseller tied directly to the publishers couldn't get it, so don't even try to go there.

Short answer: no, we are not underestimating anything.
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