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Originally Posted by mncowboy
As far as providing "free" services such as editing, proofing, etc., come on! Take a look at the net margin going to the author from the big 6 - around 15%. These services are far from free.
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And those advances they brag about are little more than glorified loans on terms that in many cases would make loan sharks blush with enbarrassment.
The author/publisher relationship is a *business* relationship where the author *rarely* has the upper hand. Why romanticize it? Out of nostalgia for a simpler era? An era most writers have nothing to be nostalgic over?