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> leads to the creation of some entity or other. We have record companies
> because of the way music has been distributed in the past. Things change.
> We no longer have guilds. Could be that we no longer need record
companies.
>
Scott McCloud in his excellent follow-up to Understanding Comics,
Reinventing Comics, states much the same re comic books, at least in an
electronic format.  But there is a big problem in that without some
marketing and distribution corporation(s) of some sort it's much more
difficult (of course not impossible) for an artist to make enough money to
live. Electronics do help a lot in mitigating some of the physical barriers
but the flip side of universal accessibility also means a glut of artists
saying "me too!"