The Voldemort of the book business not only controls an estimated 60 percent of e-book sales and a significant
chunk of print book sales, it has now become a publisher, establishing imprints for everything from romance novels to children's picture books and putting out more than 100 books of its own in 2011.
Publishers still serve the huge slab
of the market that is not digital, the market for
print books, more efficiently and more effectively than self publishers can (even with the help
of their allies and third - party services — which makes you wonder why more publishers don't offer
sales and distribution to self publishers and take a
chunk of self publishers» cash while they are at it) or will in the near future.