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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
Perhaps the biggest fear of the publishing world (music or books) is that the artists will realize that they don't need publishers anymore. They can do it all themselves in the manner they feel is most effective.
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In electronic media, the services provided by the middlemen can easily be provided on a freelance basis:
- literary editing
- proof reading
- graphics
- promotion
Then the artist can keep a larger portion of each sale.
The artist's agent and the publisher currently filter what will be published. At times this filtering has been a problem. This could be replaced with a rating service of some kind.
The Big Publishing houses have assumed power beyond their station. They are just middlemen in an increasing electronic age that has little need for middlemen. I give them one decade.