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Originally Posted by darryl
@DiapDealer. Whilst libraries do lend books at no cost they have and are subject to limitations which limit the value of "free", including increased purchase costs for books, limited numbers and selections and long waiting lists. As you say, we must wait and see. There are many hypothetical scenarios to answer your last question. One, of course, is if ebooks take over much of the print book market. Another is if the Big 5 have difficulties attracting quality authors in the future, which I think is quite likely. Yet another would be if Indie books make their way inti traditional book stores in large numbers. There are many such scenarios.
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Hum, as far as I can tell, the movement seems to be more from indie to publisher than from publisher to indie. For the most part, it appears that the indie verses traditional publisher situation has stabilized over the last several years. The predicted flood of authors moving from traditional publishers to indie hasn't happened yet.
Once again, I would point out that the indie movement really is a very different market than the traditional publishing market. It's really a lot closer to the old time pulp or magazine business model than it is to traditional publishing. That's one reason that there are two very different sets of price points.