Paul Anilprem wrote:Essentially, the questions are: 1. Can a typical author paired with a good publisher bring out a good quality book?
and 2. Can a very good author (paired with self hired good editor) bring out a good quality book?
I think, no and yes, respectively
Paul Anilprem wrote:and for this reason, I think a publisher does not really add much value for the consumer and for the author because 1. it doesn't guarantee a qood quality book 2. consumer pays more 3 authors don't make much money.
And when neither the content producer nor content consumer gets a fair return for their effort/money, it can be said that the middleman is potential dinosaur![]()
Steve
Steve Luke wrote:
Paul Anilprem wrote:Essentially, the questions are: 1. Can a typical author paired with a good publisher bring out a good quality book?
and 2. Can a very good author (paired with self hired good editor) bring out a good quality book?
I think, no and yes, respectively
If you look who are disagreeing with you, they mostly seem like authors (see the title author under their name? they get that for having published books) and not publishers. Whereas I don't have any experience the fact that they do lends their opinion a bit of weight. Perhaps rather than ignoring it you should consider your premise that publishers add nothing to the situation could be flawed.
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Paul Anilprem wrote:
You are right. I will just shut up
Steve
Andrew Monkhouse wrote:
A publish on demand system. Multiple companies do this today, including Amazon (Create Space)
Interestingly, the Wikipedia article on book stores can be read to imply that both having a source for getting multiple different books and publish on demand were the standard model in 300 B.C.
Dennis Deems wrote:There are compelling arguments that wringing one's hands about piracy is self-defeating.
(as bert bates is here, i take a shot and will point out to him,Many people are waiting for their next edition of Head first servlet and jsp.)
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