One hopes that such presses will have enough people interested in the books to keep them alive and reasonably decently funded. They put out nicer books on the whole, edit them better, care about them more, keep them in print longer. Their distribution is a problem, but I think that will be overcome by the Internet and other things. Of all of the links in the publishing chain, as I understand it, warehousing and mailing have been the problem for small presses. If that can be solved then I m optimistic.
Odd things happen one never anticipates.
Publishers publish books for reasons I do not understand. They don t make any money on them, and they know it, and they are only interested in money. But still they publish them. And the books get remaindered quickly. I buy most of my books from remainder catalogs, more than I do in shops, and they re brand new, cheap and wonderful books.