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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
But there is no way that the editing process at a publishing house takes 1.5 years, 20 hours a week.
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This.
Anyone who thinks writing a book is not a tremendously time-consuming process hasn't done it. Publishing is the easy part, the mechanical part. Even editing is a dramatically easier task (and yes, I've done it) than writing.
It's a little like a theory on how life began that starts, "Assume the world. Okay, now, the first step is..." Or a theory on the wages workers deserve that starts, "Assume the factory."
Publishers do add value. They provide a service. But the days of being the gatekeeper are thankfully in the past. And no one but a publisher actually thinks they've got the hard part of the job, or anywhere near equivalent to what the writers actually do.