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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Since most of the costs involved are labor costs - reducing them means paying people less.
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So be it. If those getting a smaller paycheck don't like it, they can get a second job, or a different job.
Why should Publishers and Authors be immune from the same economic forces that affect everybody else?
I seriously doubt that there is very little to improve upon with automation or efficiency in the process, however. They just need to look harder at their own processes and cut the fat.
EDIT: I should add that those people performing "labor" could benefit from increases in efficiency as well. If they can accomplish more in less time, they will get paid more. Efficient technologies such as decent text-to-speech, or an improved OCR algorithm, come to mind as exponentially useful technologies.
You only have to look as far as the music scene to see this. It used to be you couldn't even hope to produce your own media for distribution. Now, for a nominal amount of money, you can set up a recording studio in your garage and produce something sonically superior to previous decades recordings.