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By the time you've paid these professionals the typical book is making a loss. A publisher profits from the hits. This is much more of a gamble for a lone autho
by buckminster 7y ago
By the time you've paid these professionals the typical book is making a loss. A publisher profits from the hits. This is much more of a gamble for a lone author.
- Silhouette 7y agoThis is a reasonable argument, but an unfortunate corollary is that the author of a really successful book is losing out because they're subsidising all the commercial failures that the publisher took a punt on. The bookie always wins, but no-one else is guaranteed to.