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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Reading between the lines, the first draft called him all sorts of appropriate names that she carefully edited out before sending it out.  |
Reading between the lines of the web site for her company, its business plan is to get their revenue from authors. This is in contrast to the alleged dinosaurs who, however meagarly, pay the authors. I'm not impressed by a new model where the author pays. For one thing, if the author is directly paying the editor, what editor will stand up to him or her when a major re-write is needed?
I'm currently reading
After the Music Stopped, a terrific new book on the extended financial crisis, written by a Princeton economist and published by Penguin. I borrowed the EPUB from the Brooklyn Public Library via the clumsy, but useable, 3M Cloud Library. Maybe author Alan Binder is lying, in his acknowledgements, about how the people at Penguin improved his book, but it certainly is better written than most university press books.
Princeton professors will still be able to eat well, and publish, without the big six. But without publishers who have the resources to do major editorial surgery, no-ax-to-grind public affairs books will be fewer and, more important, worse.