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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
-- Some indeed is, as described, wrong:
I'm against restraint of trade. What's happened when authors did switch publishers for their second book? Have they been successfully sued by the first publisher?
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Why is that wrong? The reason a publisher want a multibook contract is that the first book usually do not make any money, they need more books to build a readership.
We also have the lottery effect. Since it is impossible to predict a book that will become very popular the publisher need to publish a lot of book and need the income for a very popular series. It would be strange that one publisher pay a lot of money that causes a book to take off just to have another publisher buy the next book.