the RIAA sued everybody and their grandma while doing everything they could to make sure money didn't go to the artists but to themselves, and now you have streaming, which is legal, but pays even the most famous musicians dogshit in royalties. fight. the. publishers.
Their publishers actually provide a service, yes, without which they would be unlikely to finish making a book people want to read Charles Stross talked about this at length during the Amazon vs Hachette court case in 2014
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Amazon at the time was pushing the idea that this problem would solve itself because the publishers, being useless parasites, would be rapidly abandoned by authors who would take advantage of Amazon's self-publishing services to take control of their career and get rich
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This did not happen
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