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Originally Posted by Lemurion
No, you are not wrong. That is exactly what he is saying.
That's the root of the problem.
He says the figures suggest that, but they don't. The figures show that if you achieve a certain sales volume on Kindle, you will make more money in royalties by self-publishing than through a commercial publisher. Unfortunately, that achievement depends on more factors than the quality of the manuscript alone.
We're both getting the same meaning from the words. The real disagreement is in what the numbers mean, not the words.
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My turn to do the bolding.
Yep, that's what the figures say, and that is what the report says. And the figures in the report form part of the context for the phrase "stellar manuscript". We saw that "stellar" has multiple definitions, and I'm happy to accept that some may use it for "very good", but it is commonly associated with performance rather than quality (when we see a movie has are "stellar cast" we don't automatically assume these a high quality actors, we assume they're ones that help to sell lots of movies), which is the variation that make sense in this context.