[fjtorres]

*My* take on the "triple" metaphor (and the reason *I* cited it) is that just because Turow got lucky from the start in finding a willing sponsor for his work and because he was successful from day one, he has never personally experienced the travails and mistreatment of other "lesser" writers. So, to him, the BPHs are great partners and facilitators. He never had to work the count, take one for the team, or try to steal a base. He was already standing on third with zero outs at the start of *his* game. Instead of hitting a triple, he got a walk and moved to third on a wild pitch.

To bring up another baseball metaphor; he never spent time riding buses in the minors, but instead went straight to the big leagues. When you travel first class all the way, you can't exactly appreciate what riding in steerage is like. Life is very different from where he sits than it is for a writer whose book brings in a couple hundred bucks a month and he's happy because that is his car payment. (Or meal money.)

Which is why he sees the tech and market changes the industry is experiencing as negatives instead of positives for authors because in his whole point of view anything that is bad for publishers is by definition bad for authors.