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Originally Posted by hardcastle
Publishers would have to be incredibly foolish to think that a consumer is only looking at just their supply of books. A consumer doesn't only look at Tor books unless they're a fan of Tor, and you only make a fan of someone with your backlog.
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The BPH are used to dealing with the competition being a couple thousand books in print, not millions. There's no good reason for them to volunteer to bring more of that competition against their own new books. Authors are far more concerned about keeping their backlist in print, especially for a series than publishers ever are, especially if any of the backlist was originally published elsewhere.