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August 12th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Well, there’s a difference between POD and self-publishing. As the quality of the finished product gets better, I think print-on-demand is the way a lot of publishing is going to go — even quicker than it goes towards e-books. I think it just makes more economic and environmental sense not to print a huge initial print run you’re not sure you can sell. Self-publishing will be helped along by better POD technology too — if you have a good-looking product, and can generate sales, your book is harder to dismiss — but I think editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, production editors, marketers and the others who work at traditional publishing houses still serve really valuable purposes. I say this fully biased as an editor myself, but there’s a lot to be said for having other, trained professional eyes go over your manuscript before the published book.