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Originally Posted by SlowRain
ardeegee, you beat me to it.
One given in life is that those who know are usually at the mercy of those who don't. Another given is that the non-pretentious are the victims of the pretentious.
The American publishing industry is horribly managed, similar to the American auto industry. They don't know what people want, so they produce almost anything, hoping that the one or two hits will offset the multitude of misses. It's very costly and inefficient. We know this, yet we are at the mercy of those who think it actually costs that much to produce a given book.
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What? If it is not known how to find books that sells without having misses it cannot be mis-managment that is the cause. Also the misses has to be taken into the cost to produce a specific book. What publishers provides is a filter mechanism. You pay for access to that filter when you buy the book.