LoL you have it backwards. Publishers do not have magical pre-cognition of the success of a book. We have myriad examples of them shoveling money at authors for

LoL you have it backwards. Publishers do not have magical pre-cognition of the success of a book. We have myriad examples of them shoveling money at authors for books which bombed and we also have them turning up their noses at manuscripts which went on to earn billions. Case in point, Harry Potter.