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Old 04-13-2012, 02:46 PM   #298
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Originally Posted by mncowboy View Post
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.
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?
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