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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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Actually genre fiction is what's keeping publishers in business on the fiction side. Literary fiction is losing money, but genre makes enough to keep everyone happy.