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Originally Posted by Catlady
If you want to "hire" a publisher, go to a vanity press.
Or buy the services you think you need and want, and self-publish. Is someone stopping you from doing this, since you think of publishing in the same way you think of home repair.
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Ditto this. The cynicism for publishers here is astounding. The counter-cynical view might well be that the writer isn't hiring them so much as they are hiring the writer.
Maybe the publishing houses really are something like dinosaurs but that doesn't mean the services they provide are not needed. Maybe some of these services will be moved out-of-house; others will move in.