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Originally Posted by Fbone
Are there "publishing services companies" who aren't retailers?
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Harlequin has a branch (it's ominously close to vanity publishing, including verbage that implies that if the book is exceptional it might get pushed on to a trad editor at Harlequin.) There's another one...avon? No...dang it. I can't remember. There's another large publisher that has opened a publishing services company. Originally Harlequin was even going to lend it's name to it, but Romance Writer's of America had an absolute fit over it because readers would have no clear way to tell what was self-published for very high fees versus traditional. They took their name off and left the imprint.
There are still sharks out there.