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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It adds to the current self-pub/vanity process a service bureau (the publishers) that will polish the product, for a price, before it is self-published.
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But this already exists. There are lots of people who provide these services, in fact, they are often the same people that the publishers hire. All you are doing is adding another expense layer because the publisher-service provider in your concept would need to make a profit as would the editors they would hire.
Even vanity presses offer these services -- the more you are willing to pay, the better the quality of the service you will receive.
I don't see how this is any kind of new model; at best it is an expansion of the existing model, and an expansion that won't fly any better than the current system does.
Until you get past the hurdle of authors being unwilling to foot the expense, there will be no change.