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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Maybe I am suffering from some kind of nostalgia neurosis, but this is my picture of the high-standards old business model:
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P.S. The real problem is that publishers aren't sticking close enough to the old business model....
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Yes you are and that model has changed, There are none, or certainly very few, editors like Maxwell Perkins. As I said (and you conveniently left out when you quoted me) today's TPH editors are really nothing more then project managers trying to keep their jobs and manage legal aspects of locking authors and works in, shuffle manuscripts through the process and improve their standing in the food chain and contribute to the corporate bottom line. Editing, design, production, distribution etc. are freelanced out. Nothing like the old days you desire.