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Looks like publishers are trying to ensure their own death. With direct-to-Amazon authors now offered 70% of e-book revenue coupled with Amazon’s print-on-demand technology, publishers are being marginalized into nothing more than money lenders. Amazon will take care of manufacturing and Amazon is such a huge store that you will be able to get meaningful sales volume, so the only thing Amazon doesn’t do is give you a cash advance while you write your book.
Oh, and the gatekeeper role that publishers play, deciding who gets a book deal and who gets rejected? Completely unnecessary. Since Amazon doesn’t incur any major costs until a book is purchased (print-on-demand!) it has every reason to accept all books, even if they only sell one copy. The long tail wins, my friends.
