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Originally Posted by HarryT
Traditional publishers are still extremely relevant. I almost never read self-published books simply because the overwhelming majority are complete crap.
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To each their own.
But with every passing day, there are less and less people that share your view...
...and more and more authors going independent.
Tradpub isn't going to disappear entirely any more than pbooks are. If nothing else, they control too many titles already published. And there are still a lot of smaller, honorable publishers outside the grasp of the BPH cartel. But it is precisely those smaller publishers that are being devoured by the multinationals, and have been since before Indie publishing took over.
As this video animation points out, each of the BPHs came to be by eating up dozens of long standing independent publishers. It isn't just authors they prey upon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGds6GdM7C8
All tradpubs are not the same.
And not all indies are, either.