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Originally Posted by darryl
. It is about time this one was thrown out, bathwater, baby and all!
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Well, in the theoretical case aussie tradpub houses collapse or (more likely) the giant multinationals pull out, three paths would remain for authors:
- Self-pubishing, of course. As long as they avoid Author Solutions and the vanity presses they can still get to market via the established global channels.
- "New Publishing" operations like author coops and very small publishing houses that would pick up the slack for the departed. (Like birds and mammals filling the voids left by the death of dinosaurs.)
- The death/departure of the larger publishing houses shouldn't mean agents go away. If anything, competent honest agents with connections in the international markets would be essential for those firmly wedded to traditional publishing.
I doubt aussie literature is as dependent on the big publishers as they would have you believe. Biggest change would be authors are going to have to be more active in managing their own careers (as a business) which is something authors everywhere are facing, anyway.