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>Publishers choose a priori which books are going to be bestsellers Oh, if only we knew how to do that!
by Finnucane 5y ago
>Publishers choose a priori which books are going to be bestsellers
Oh, if only we knew how to do that!
- 21723 5y agoI should say "are supposed to be* bestsellers. I have heard horror stories where someone gets a lead title package and the book still flops. Whether that's because of a bad book or just terrible luck, I don't know enough about it to say. But the chain bookstores are definitely a big part of the problem whereby publishers are expected to bet big on a few books ("lead titles") and let the others wither. The publishers didn't ask to be in this world.
- aahortwwy 5y agoIt sounds a lot like music pre-2000s, perhaps a little less sophisticated/optimized due to a longer feedback loop.