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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Will it? It's certainly a threat to the Publishing industry. I'm not so sure it's really a threat to the authors, it may even be beneficial for them. Certainly promotion and distribution become a lot cheaper and easier. That sucks for the middlemen, but is pretty good for the authors.
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That is an illusion. You will need shelf space, exposure. Having a website is not going to do it. You have to go Amazon ou iTunes or somewhere where people find you. Selling the odd e-book on your own website will probably not be enough to pay for the website alone, especially if you do know how or want to do it yourself. And on top of that you have to sell them cheap and also to give some for free. It just doesn’t work. If it did work, you would see lots of authors living from e-books and music sold on their own websites. What you can have, of course, is amateurs: people with some other day job that then are able to make say 100 dollars per month. Do you want all authors to be amateurs?