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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
The problem is, nobody can predict what will grab the public's attention.
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Yes, that's it.
Of the hundreds of thousands of books that are written and ignored every year, there must be a few that could have been the next sensation with some first rate (or second rate) editing, and the right kind of marketing plan. But even with a staff the size of Random House, a publisher can only read through a tiny portion of them. So if a publisher is lucky enough to find a golden reader unusually attuned to the mass public mood, it still is one of those needle-haystack deals. And as you sort of say, such golden readers may not really exist. Perhaps the couple readers Random House thinks are golden have been on a lucky streak soon to end.