ricky said:
I'm not sure.
i'm sure. i'm absolutely positive.
As content creators, it's in publishers' best interest
except publishers are _not_ "content creators". _writers_ create the content. always have; always will. the publishers have traditionally taken that "content" and made it the subject of large press-runs so as to make affordable the print-books they then placed in brick-and-mortar bookstores. they are _middlemen_, and all the services they rendered were a function of the former nature of the book as _a_physical_product_, and they extracted the lion's share for those services... but now writers can turn their own content into e-books -- using a few dozen lines of code, as i've just shown -- that are easily uploaded and then available world-wide, without necessarily giving up _any_ cut to a "publisher". the old days will soon be history, and publishers know it. indeed, they are _sure_ about it; even absolutely positive. the only question is how long they can ride it until it dies. -bowerbird