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Originally Posted by deviant
Compared to the 92% publishers take? You tell me.
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With all the discussion we've had on this forum about where the costs of publishing are, there's really no excuse for this. The book stores are taking nearly half the profit (but they're also paying facilities and staff costs). Printing also takes a chunk. The "greedy publisher taking advantage of the poor defenseless writer" is a myth we can lose. Maybe the contracts should be more in the writers' favor, but the imbalance isn't much in favor of publishers, either.
And I personally would much prefer to read fiction that's been attended to by a professional editor.