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Originally Posted by murraypaul
And there were probably lots of other manuscripts that would also have sold OK. They can't possibly publish them all.
It seems ridiculous to excoriate a publisher for deciding not to go with a book which it seems sold somewhere between 500 and 1500 copies before the author was 'outed'.
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Sure. My point was that I do not believe that the reason was that it would not sell enough and it did sell enough compared to other first publish authors. So if the number of sold copies had been the only reason you cannot say that they were right.
The stated reason was that the book did not stand out. Also when publishing a new author you do not just look at the first book, you look at what can be developed in the continued relation between the author and the publisher.