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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There is a difference between an elite author and an author that has a steady audience. While elite author is the one that signs the big bucks contracts, the authors with a steady audience tend to have good relationships with their publishers as well.
Few of the major publishers are happy to take any talent as long as they are willing to sell for less. They are looking for talent that will at least let them break even. A while back, I posted a link that said that the normal burdened cost of publishing a book is 50K. That's before it hits the market and excluding any up front payment to the author.
There are, of course, publishers who are happy to publish any level talent. They used to be called vanity publishers.
I doubt that 99% of authors fall to that level. Perhaps 99% of would be authors do, but most working authors don't.
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I think my point was that according to authors with a steady audience, once upon a time they were new authors. Strange though it may sound...
And there is plenty of authors-with-a-steady-audience to go around, as well.
And authors with a steady audience have a great relationship with their publishers as long as the relationship is not about money, again, according to authors with a steady audience.
I think you were confused by my reference to "happy to take any talent as long as it is willing to sell for less".
I meant "any talent" as in "any member of that group of people with enough talent to hold a steady audience", not "a pperson with any level of talent".
It would really help if you stopped assuming that anyone who disagrees with publishers and supports indies must be a person content with any level of self-published dreck. (Because apparently that is all self-publishing is, is vanity publishing, right?)