Will Authors of the Future Need Publishers?

frågar sig Nathan Bransford.
"But publishers would have to be extremely author-friendly -- they would be providing a service, not relying on their traditional role as gatekeepers and distributors. They'll have to win over authors facing a choice between going with a publisher vs. handling matters on their own. Publishers won't be able to rely, as they have traditionally, on the fact that authors need them in order to reach their audience, just as authors won't be able to rely on publishers losing money on most of the books they publish."