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Even if the author is right it may not really matter. Unless you become a blockbuster author the publishers hold all the power. It is hard enough for really good authors to get accepted by any of the Big 6, and the publishers are the guys who can get your book into the stores. Plus they can give those advances this author wanted. So she may be completely in the right, but it is a Pyrrhic victory if she wants a publisher.
This sucks for this author, but it is what it is. I look forward to a future where the Big 6 don't hold all the power.
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