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Originally Posted by fjtorres
I wouldn't doubt it.
That is the tragedy of this whole trad-pub vs self-pub (not so) civil war that is brewing: everybody loses.
Grafton loses sales and we don't get a chance to see what she wrote when she was exploring the boundaries of her talent and before she settled down to write series mystery.
The same for all the other "established" writers taking pot-shots at self-pub. *They* are the ones who stand to gain the *most* from self-publishing yet they go out of the way to stamp it out.
Hardly seems rational...
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A friend of mine (trad author) has some backlist books that I keep telling (begging?) him to put out in e-reader format. Won't do it. Part of it is the work, but I can't help but wonder if part of it is the "self-published" stigma. These were previously published books! They're good (I've gotten my hands on one.) Just from conversations we've had, there's a lot of "this part is my job" and "this other part is someone else's responsibility." Shrug. Nothing to be done about it. Not everyone is wired to do self-publishing and some people simply don't want to--even if they are the ones with the most to gain.
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