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@garygibsonsf
With everything you just said, you actually prove that the publishing industry (when it comes to digital at least) is absolutely useless. They can't predict a hit, they can only take guesses, they pray for word of mouth successes, so why exactly do we need them if they work on hunches and wishes in the first instance? And what of the truly talented writers, is it, as you propose, a trickle down effect, that for every James Patterson success there's three worthy authors somehow buoyed by the money brought in by one? If so, I'd love to see these authors as they're not being promoted in my direction.
What I don't get, and this seems to be a pattern I've observed, is why so many Sci-Fi authors and readers are so resistant to change in the publishing industry? I would have thought that the majority of Sci-Fi writers would be all for a shift away from the old hierarchy and toward a digital democratization of fiction.
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