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Originally Posted by gr8npwrfl
I refuse to buy from the publishers that are setting prices. I will get the book darknet and send a payment to the author directly. I have sent a message directly to the authors I read telling them why I am doing so and encouraging the authors to setup a direct distribution of their material cutting out the middlemen entirely.
More and more new authors are direct distributing, if some of the major authors get enough email saying we would buy from them directly we may just see a shift from the stranglehold the publishers have on what they think we should be reading.
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Most authors are much better writers than distributors, and the time they would spend being a second or third-rate distributor would come from their writing time. Also, the greatest enemy of most authors is obscurity, and that's where going to direct distribution would land them.
Right now, the industry is still driven by bookstores. Direct distribution means effectively zero bookstore placement. That would even hurt ebook sales, as many people browse bookstores for ebooks to buy.
Authors won't go for it because it would hurt them.