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From: "Slp" <slp0987@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: ebooks
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"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message 
news:20140324150738.5356ce46db117f1d68f9734f@eircom.net...
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:35:24 +0000
> Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
>
>> Creative types are adaptable and will eventually find new ways of
>> earning from their work, but the intermediaries who depend on both the
>> creators and the consumers co-operating with them, will have to work out
>> some new way to survive, otherwise they will vanish.  We can expect them
>> to fight very hard, and possibly 'dirty', to preserve themselves.
>
> I would be perfectly happy to see the intermediaries vanish and the
> creators benefit directly from the consumers.

It's less clear how useful editors are.

As far as I'm concerned they
> only exist to funnel creations in one direction and money in the other,

That's overstated with the best of the editors.

if
> they can be rendered obsolete so much the better.