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Originally Posted by dickloraine
But why did it start with the puppies and not from the publishers (by the way, most of the sad puppy books are traditional published)? Or do you mean it is a money and power grab from the puppies? And why wouldn't publishers not just publish the books the puppies like, if there is money to make (wait, they do publish them)?
Sorry, I just don't see this angle as particularly likely.
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That is it exactly:
It is a fight between two tradpub camps because the tradpub slice of the SF pie is shrinking.
The sad puppies put up with marginalization for decades so why suddenly start fighting three years ago? What happened in 2013?
One noticeable event: tradpub revenue went flat and started declining as Indie, Inc hit the mainstream. It's just a correlation but money *is* the root of all evil, after all.
SF is behind only romance in ebook adoption and indie penetration. That makes the award boost more important to the tradpubbers. Indies don't whine because they have no expectation of winning awards dished out by traditionalists.