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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Wait, doesn't that take extra work to do???
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Yeah, that's the killer, isn't it? And then, when I quoted him, even giving him a break on the clean-up, he wanted me to do it for one-third of our published rates. I'm like...What the frack?
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Yikes! 
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Yeah. We get a lot of that. One of the hardest parts of quoting is weeding out the tire-kickers. I get a ton of emails from people asking every conceivable type of pre-publishing question, (utterly
unrelated to the deliverables, ranging from "where do I get my ISBN" to "how to market my book") who then never send in a ms, (once they have the answers), or want SAMPLES formatted for their inspection and approval (we're not talking complex books here, mind you), or...you name it. I could understand it if we were talking $1K, but...really? It's
amazing. I find the lack of research truly shocking, and it's reinforced every day.
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