Well, there is a massive increase in new authors, and the enlightened ones among them realise that their work needs editing to help it stand out from the crowd.

Well, there is a massive increase in new authors, and the enlightened ones among them realise that their work needs editing to help it stand out from the crowd. As a result there is an emerging market for author support, including editing, acquiring an agent, knowing how to submit manuscripts to a publisher if you are not self-publishing, etc, etc. The people supplying these services generally sit outside the big publishing organisations themselves.