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Originally Posted by Iqy
Iqy here again,
This territory problem is easily solved, but it will take time. The solution is for writers to employ a good editor, then edit edit edit until their book is as perfect as it will ever be, then self publish on an ebook site that is DRM free, global, and writer friendly, not controlled by publishers. You should have a potential market of at least 3 billion people! That eliminates the printer, the agent, the distributor, the wholesaler, the transporter, and who knows who else in the food chain I don't even know about, Oh yes, the RETAILER, who doubles the price from a cost of about $15 to $30! He of course has to pay the greedy landlord!
You'll hate me for this if you work for an old publlisher, but in time you'll be out of a job anyway. If the reader is happy, $3 to $5 a book, and the writer is getting more than from an old publisher, and the editors are paid, thats it for me! The others are just hangers on for mine, what do they add? Old publishing has been around for over 200 years, its an out of date business model.
No more do we need to hear, "thank you for your manuscript, but we are not publishing your genre at the moment. Don't call us we'll call you."
How many great writers have they condemned to the scrap heap, its time for writers to let readers be the judge!
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The flaw I perceive with your model, is the Author is now managing a entire Publishing business (his) , instead of doing more
writing 
The only steps/processes that disappear with e-books, is the concept of the Press-run and "Returns".