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Originally Posted by Nahgem
Big publishing houses also theoretically have more money to put into the marketing. If an author can convince a publisher to take the gamble on them and pay a marketing team to do all the hard work they don't want to, why wouldn't they take them up on it?
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They might, but with all due respect that's not the point of this thread. Any author who receives an offer from a publishing house to publish their work should seriously consider it. There are many pros to going that route.
This thread, however is not talking about publishers taking on books, it is talking about Borders, a bookstore chain, charging writers to distribute their work; and what I find particularly distasteful, dangling the "you too can be a bestseller carrot" - which is, in 99.99% of all cases, a sucker punch.