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