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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
@Kindleman
They are fearful of losing control of the product. They are also fearful of independent publishers/writers.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. You can forsee a future where major publishing houses are not needed to get a book to market, particularly with ebooks. I was the other day looking for a CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station. She has some of here lesser known works on Amazon for Kindle, but not her award winner. (Hugo). Lo and behold, she has a web site where she explains she is setting up a system to distribute here ebooks on her own.
So the publishing houses will still want the hardcover to be first. If ebook comes to dominate as it probably will at somepoint in the future, the need for writers to have publishing houses for publication and distribution of their work may be drastically reduced if not non-existent. This is about them maintaining their status as middle man between the artist and consumer. Hopefully the artists can impress upon the publishers the need to keep the paying consumer happy as they won't listen to the consumer.