Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons

Not necessarily, at least in future. The more different titles published, the more work for freelancers editing them. When a major publisher publishes another Stephen King title, one editor gets one job. When a dozen self-publishers publish a dozen different titles, there's a dozen editing jobs open.

But Cat made a point elsewhere: how is the self-publisher going to immediately pay the editor (and others who work on the book).