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Originally Posted by Sregener
In the article by your guru, Charlie, about why he doesn't self-publish, he says the following: "So, I estimate a book takes roughly 2 months of publishing company employee labour to produce." Charlie also says he is capable of producing 2 books per year, or 6 months per book. So he is taking 3x as long in manuscript preparation as the publisher does in publishing it. That sounds closer to right to me than your "on average, they are the same."
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He also talks about how much has been outsourced. Outsourcing isn't free, and doesn't take zero time.