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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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How much is enough?
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The stated reason was that the book did not stand out.
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Yes, it didn't stand out, it was a bit average. The particular reviewer at that publisher wasn't grabbed by it.
Or, as I've already said: "And there were probably lots of other manuscripts that would also have sold OK. They can't possibly publish them all."
There is a limited number of titles that a publisher can release at once. Not every book can be published. That doesn't make them idiots.
They will publish books that they think will sell well. Given books they think will sell equally well, they might make a decision based on genres they tend to support or avoid, or, ultimately, just on whether the particular person deciding happened to like the book or not.
They passed on this book.
If it
hadn't come out that the author was JK Rowling, would they still have been so criticised for doing so?