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Originally Posted by stonetools
Actually, what you should be celebrating is not that a dozen publishers saw no merit in an offering by an untried "welfare mother" (that's how conservatives would describe her) but that a publisher did have the balls to put their money down on what was a giant gamble.
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A dozen publishers turned down billions of dollars in revenue.
Think about that.
They looked at the book and said, 'nah, that's crap, that is.' Readers looked at it and said 'that's brilliant, have a few billion dollars.'
In most industries that would have resulted in internal enquiries and people would have been sacked, up to and including CEOs. But in publishing we're supposed to feel grateful that someone was finally willing to let Rowling hand them a product that was worth billions.