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What job? The job of the artist? I sure hope not! I mean, ok, we don't have illuminated manuscripts anymore, but we still have typographers, illustrators (for books), painters etc., so the job has evolved, not disappeared completely. What technological change will eventually make obsolete are probably the record companies...


A lot of scholarly publishers today, even very respected names, no longer provide typesetting and expect authors to do all the work and provide a camera-ready PDF. The whole scene of publishing genre fiction directly on Amazon also eschews quality typesetting and often even basic editing and proofreading.

Just saying. There are a lot of jobs today that the market apparently no longer wants to pay for, even in the book world.




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