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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Hmm... it seems to me that each publisher has a monopoly on each book that they publish. There are not different publishers competing to provide different versions of the same book by the same author.
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True, but then few authors write different versions of the same book for publication (not talking about prepublication writing and rewriting
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But different publishers do publish books on the same topic by different authors. Even the same publisher will publish, for example, several biographies of Abraham Lincoln, each with a different perspective and by different authors.
I suspect that if you could get an author to write the same book but from different perspectives you could get two publishers to publish them. The bottleneck is not the publisher but the author.