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Originally Posted by L.J. Sellers
I'm not sure this is true anymore or will hold true for long. Publishers have laid off staff, including sales people. And bookstores are reducing their inventory and carrying fewer and fewer fiction authors and more toys/videos/knickknacks. The goal of getting their book "on the shelf" will be moot soon for most authors.
L.J.
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It's still a matter of comparatives. Publishers may do less than they once did, but they still do more than the alternatives.
They aren't perfect - but everything else is worse for getting your books in front of eyeballs.