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Originally Posted by Catlady
Well, almost the first thing I noticed was that the complaints at the link concerned a "small press." Not a major publishing house.
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That particular one, yes.
The BPHs' sins are bigger in scope and get more press so I didn't think it was necessary to beat those horses some more.
I was trying to point out it isn't just the big boys (Harlequin, Penguin, et al) that run roughshod over authors.
(We had the Hydra mess a couple weeks ago and there's the ongoing "Julie of the wolves" fight as recent examples.)
In the KKR piece she points out one (nameless) operation that went from tolerable terms to intolerably bad overnight without any changes in personnel. Which means the issues are industry-wide and likely to bite anybody at any time; there are no inherently good guys in an industry in turmoil.
It all comes down to the existing infrastructures and processes being geared to a different era and people trying to preserve them past their shelf life.