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but if a good argument can be made that they are among the best on the topic.
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The most probable scenario for that to happen are:
- Translation of an existing work from another language;
- Critical editions of obscure works;
- Things that make for a solid backlist title for a specialized publisher, but whose front list sales will ensure that it never gets to midlist status. (This is due to the Five Sisters trying to get those specialty publishers they purchased, to use the same criteria in keeping midlist books, as they do for Mills & Boone backlist titles.) ;
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this means advance-paying publishers will remain strong there.
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I wouldn't count on it. With the Mills & Boone mentality that the Five Sisters are exhibiting, a critical edition of John Dee's
Hieroglyphic Monad probably won't get an advance, but
An Idiot's Guide To John Dee will get an advance.