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Originally Posted by SolRaven
That's exactly what I am saying. For the amount of money that authors give to publishers over the life of a book, an author could hire proof readers, editors and illustrators on their own for much less in the end. It's like paying an HOA fees, or hiring your own landscaper, and other contractors, as needed, for your own SF house. Which is cheaper?
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With a publishing contract, the author doesn't have to pay those fees up front. Also, a publisher has contacts--advertising, distributors, news reporters--that individual authors generally don't, and no amount of money can get them.
I do think we'll see a lot more self-published books in the future, and some of them will be good. But a lot of them will be poorly (or not) edited and shoddy, and "self-published" will retain its stigmatic reputation.