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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I wonder... Josieb1 just bought 11 books to complete, and quickly get an interesting series. If many people did this, could the cash injection be big enough to actually give the publisher another chance?
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Stranger things have happened.
However there are two problems they would face:
1- in started their graceful wind-down they are closing their doors to new manuscripts and reverting rights as their contracts end. By the time they recover, the pipeline for new content will be empty.
2- if they miraculously get better quick their credibility will be at risk. Some will wonder if it was a ploy to get readers to move future purchases forward or just plain bad management. Either way it would reflect poorly on them. As a rule, companies don't come back from these announcements.
At this point the only way to "save" the business is to sell the contracts and in the wake of the Nightshade mess and what happened to their authors it is to Samhain's credit that they'd rather wind-down than risk their authors getting clobbered.
Miracles happen but you can't count on them.
