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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Steve, the last decade had been hard on corporate technicians, due to technology changes if the late 1990's. (Offshoring was a result of ultra cheap telecommunications.) The handwriting is on the wall that the legal profession is going to have a hard decade (for the same reason as corporate technicians).
Question, why should writers be exempt?
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I never said they should be. I asked whether this was a bad time for writers now.
Are you suggesting that some form of offshoring will heavily impact authors? I could see it impacting publishers more than authors, myself: Cheaper labor put to the effort of scanning, proofing and/or editing books; ebook sites not challenged by copyright or geographic restrictions (even if it's just because they are operating outside of other countries' jurisdictions); etc.
If you're asking whether or not anyone should
care if authors are having an easy or hard time... I think the suggestion that people don't care what happens to that profession goes a long way towards answering my original question.