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Originally Posted by taustin
Writers do not create books, they create manuscripts. The publisher turns the manuscript in to a book. And puts, on average, about as many man-hours in to the process as the author does writing it.
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Really? I mean, really? Having written and tried to sell a book, considering the 7 drafts I wrote (of which 3 were complete typing of each and every word), the reading and editing of those drafts, and whatnot, I put in somewhere in the order of 1000 hours of work. You're telling me the publisher of today puts that much time into each and every book they print?
Now, if you're Amanda Hocking and chug a few energy drinks and crank out a book in 12 hours, sure, I can see what you're saying being true. But I think the vast majority of authors put in far, far more time than a publisher ever will. And given the abundance of typos and misspellings I see in the average NYT bestseller, I doubt many are given much time in the editing process.