I've worked with publishing houses, and boy, if there's an industry that's more conservative, I don't even want to know... And no, this was in the US/UK. Altho

I've worked with publishing houses, and boy, if there's an industry that's more conservative, I don't even want to know... And no, this was in the US/UK. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the Germans would be even worse, considering that they're equally consolidated, even more snooty (even harder boundaries between genre and "serious" literature) and then there's the whole fixed book price deal...