Publishers are dead. In ten years time good editors will team up with good agents who have snared good authors. This will ensure that the best authors reach the market in a branded form (to ensure quality)- and between those three $10 will go a long way! What does an author see from Simon and Schuster these days? I bet it is less than $3.
I can't wait!
We are witnessing the dying throes of the publishing dinosaurs. Bring it on!
And in the meantime, I never used to buy hardbacks because they were too heavy. I am not going to switch to hardbacks from eBooks for the sake of four months.
Muppets