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I don't get it. Nothing in the story suggests that the Indie publishers are turning these "midlist" authors into genuine hit makers. Who cares that someone who's book only sells 15,000 got published at all? Well, I guess 15,000 out of the world's 5 billion people care.
What kind of attention should such an author get from one of the big publishers?
Sounds to me like the big publishers aren't losing anything by losing these authors. Nor, frankly, is the "reading public" gaining all that much in a book that only 15,000 people are interested in. Heck, I'm sure I could get 100 people to read any book I would write with no publisher at all.
Lee
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