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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The BPHs are already operating on a Hollywood-style "blockbuster" economy where the big money comes from only a handful of new releases and from milking the backlist so there is plenty of incentive to reduce the number of new titles and consolidate their manuscript spending on likely bestsellers. Which is what seems to be happening.
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Unlike movies, the costs/effort associated with both the production and the distribution are a lot less with ebooks.
The effort of production is about the same (BPH/self) other than editing, which can be had relatively cheaply. The cost/effort of self publishing is minimal at best, even accounting for marketing.
So, if the BPHs have picked up the Hollywood style, they are in a different marketplace, and may discover that it doesn't work for them.