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When an independent author can make *some* money off each book sold at $0.99 on SmashWords.com, it appears to me that the Big Publishing Company Model is broken for the next wave if they think they need $13 -$15. Note that this does NOT imply that I think eBooks should sell for less than a dollar.
When I read that the highly successful Twilight series got started - basically as an accident AND when I read that the highly successful Harry Potter series was turned down by 12 publishers, the Big Publishing Company Model is broken now.
What happened? The usual? Mergers and acquisitions, arrogance and greed, corner the market and control, short term quarter-by-quarter thinking, bureaucracy and high-flying CEOs?
The value is in the CONTENT, not the Big 6 Publishing houses.
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