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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
What that shows to me is that the "proper" publishers have had it wrong all these years when they decided what people wanted to read. If they want to survive long term it isn't just their prices they need to sort out. They need to start encouraging all those trash writers they turned their noses up at in the past to start sending them manuscripts again instead of selling themselves direct to readers.
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unfortunately these publishers have a compulsion to milk a genre to the point of absurdity, they have no sense of balance. they don't put out a smattering of genres, they pick one and drive it into the ground. its milk milk milk, drop like a hot potato. i feel bad for all the urban fantasy and twilight-clone authors who will be on the unemployment line when the bottom falls out on those expectorating dust genres. unless you're writing the genre du jour they still won't want your manuscript.