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Originally Posted by mrkai
...is that there is a much higher rate of consumption of these books and a lot of "churn" on the content side so its a volume business. They put those things out like, daily almost don't they? 
I think this speaks for itself in a way; other publishers do not believe their products will have the same sale/loss ratio as say Harlequin or Baen...for...whatever reason. If it is widely known that these two entities are successful, perhaps other publishers may judge success by a different metric?
It is certain worth investigating why these two examples are being "ignored" by others, I will grant you that for sure. |
I think your comments hint at why two successful publishers are being ignored: They are not taken seriously by Big Pub. With commonly-denigrating tags such as "geeky" sci-fi and "trashy" romance... are there many other genres that are looked down upon more sharply by the general public and the mainstream publishers?
So possibly Big Pub simply assumes that genre successes can't be duplicated by mainstream publishers... or, they could simply be using that as their standard excuse boilerplate to keep everyone else at bay.