Not exact matches
You seem to suggest that small
publishers should just
accept the overpowering
by larger markets in your post and yet later on that they should build a vibrant market themselves, my suggestion would enable them to do that while still benefiting from print sales and then reverting the digital rights.
The company's hand had been forced
by a preceding announcement that Apple had
accepted an agency agreement with five of the six
largest publishers.
This means a long, tedious process of sending queries to agents — most likely over a year or two, if not longer — because mainstream
publishers,
by and
large, no longer
accept submissions directly from authors.
Indeed, people write in
larger numbers than were ever
accepted by publishers, as I saw when working in publishing in the late 80s / early 90s.