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None of this is going to happen over night.
It's only recently that ebooks have gotten any mainstream attention. For that reason alone, it's only recently that they are becoming a market worth catering to. As the ability to make $ from ebooks increases (and way down the road surpasses?) while pbooks decreases, we'll see more authors breaking the bonds of publisher-addiction.
The printing, distribution etc of a book aren't worth the hassle for most authors (too much space and time/logistics required).
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oing the same with an ebook involves significantly less hassle (almost a setup-and-forget relative to long-term-warehousing/distribution of pbooks, possible for one person out of home for the most part) as are the costs.
We'll see more dedicated portals for selling electronic media yourself as well - be it as part of a larger coalition of artists or a single creator and those will be increasingly simple to use.
The publishers will have to offer a lot more to grab the interest of future authors - as even the big ones decide taking on sales/distribution themselves realized it's worth doing...something that generally can't be said with pbooks.
this has been a set of predictions by guystrodamos!
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