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Originally Posted by TheSFReader
Unfortunately, that may well be "transformed" by some publishers to
"...they have [... ]and work with the author to make it as Sellable as possible before offering it for sale. "
My take is : The most important service they may perform would be stop creating works that should never see the light of day.
Some publishers KNOW that books with sexy witches and vampires will SELL, with the consequence that our bookshops are stuffed up with sexy vampires and witches, to the detriment of less sellable books ...
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Publishers sell books, and need to sell a certain number of books to stay in business. Books with sexy witches and vampires
sell? Of
course they'll try to publish some. They
sell.
But guess what? Sales of those sexy witch and vampire books help provide the revenue that
allows the publisher to take chances on the creative stuff you (and I) might like. If they published only what
I liked, they'd be out of business tomorrow.
I don't care about the sexy witch and vampire books clogging the stores, because I don't have to buy or read them. Other folks
do like, buy, and read them, and while I don't share their taste, I'm not arrogant enough to think they shouldn't.
There's still more stuff being published that I'd like to read than I have time to read or money to buy, so I don't exactly feel slighted.
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Dennis