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Originally Posted by HansTWN
As for publishers, I do think they will go the way of the horse buggy. It will just be authors and book sellers. Perhaps you can find a business model as a consultant to aspiring authors.
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This will not happen in our lifetime for reasons I detailed at despairing length elsewhere.
Book publishers are in no way analogous to music publishers, so if your prediction comes from any such comparison, you ought to discard it as your model.
And as to discarding my business model--even if it was not clear to me that my work was bringing genuinely worthwhile books to market that might otherwise never come to be--I would not become a consultant of any sort to anyone as that is not where my strengths lie. Not unlike my authors, I also have a day job and have both the capacity and the willingness to earn my money through honest work of other sorts until the cheques from book sales start to be hefty enough that I (and hopefully at least some of my authors also) can do otherwise.
(And lest anyone assume I am insane and referencing my edition of The Art of War in the above--I am not. Public domain stuff is neither my primary nor even my secondary focus in publishing.)
- Ahi