[Moejoe]

My predicition is short and sweet, and it's based mainly upon what I see and what I believe is the only option in the future.

Anybody; publisher, independent, collective or what-have-you that continues to charge set prices, or any price at all will be dead in the market place within 5 years. The rules of object=price are gone, and they're never coming back. It's all going to be good will and community, and that's the bottom line. That's what the internet does best. Good will and community. Writers will have to work ten times as hard, do everything for themselves and still bite the bullet and give it all away for free in the hopes that somewhere down the line their hard work is rewarded either monetarily or in kind.

This isn't a fanciful notion, it's not even a philosophical notion, it's merely practical. When you can get the cow and the milk for free, who the f**k would pay for a milkman?