The New York Times has this story about Amazon.com skipping past agents and publishers and approaching authors directly with offers of lucrative publishing deals.
This is something that the publishing status quo has long feared, and the rest of us know is overdue.
While the old power brokers lament this development, one wonders what they are doing to stay relevant and current? Forcing eBook prices up, and clinging to their old stables of authors?
It’s time for them to think outside the box and start looking for dark horses in the long list of Indie authors who are publishing and selling at Amazon. (I’m sure they’d all consider a book deal… if the status quo remembers how to publish an unknown author…)
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