On the subject of time and effort put in by publishers someone posted the response above but Charlie Stross's original
post on self-publishing he estimates it at 1/3rd of the writing time:
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So, I estimate a book takes roughly 2 months of publishing company employee labour to produce. Plus another 4 weeks of author eyeball time (which is that part of the publisher workflow the author undertakes — see previous paragraph).
When you add it all up: if I'm as efficient as a trade publisher, it would take me roughly 3 months to produce a book that also took me 6 months to write.
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However taken together with Linda Nagata's response it seems the answer is "it depends on the writer and the book."