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Originally Posted by kennyc
Why should they? They are the big dogs, they're making the money, they want to write not publish.
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I guess the idea is that they are also making a lot of money for the big five, and could retain some of that if they owned their own publisher.
The original United Artists AFAIK wanted not just more money, but also more artistic control. If the big five pretty much let their name authors produce whatever books they want to, without unwanted editing, then there is less reason for incorporation of a literary United Artists. Less reason, but still some reason.