Are publishers fearful self-published e-nook authors will compete with them?
No. It is very easy for publishers to knock out all self-published author’s books from any Website. Imagine an e-publisher’s Web site that rivals Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Borders.com. Imagine your self-published book featured on the home page. This new market may now be dominated by self-published authors that initially gained the advantage on the major publishers. But what happened with Amazon.com when they first started out with self-published books? All you see now are promotions of publisher’s books on the home page. Where are the self-published books? Gone. Hiding somewhere in the database of over 2-million titles! P-book or e-book it does not matter, the self-published book will follow the same fate as described above. The marketing clout of publishers is powerful, effective and relentless. It is futile to believe an author can outsmart and beat publishers. Many authors were wishing the e-book would liberate them from publishers, but this is foolish thinking. Publishers are
