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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Then why have none of the authors, whose books I enjoy and admire, switched from these alleged predators to indie/Amazon publishing? I mostly read non-fiction, but even the series genre fiction writers whose new titles I always read (Archer Mayor, Faye Kellerman, Julia Keller) haven't switched. They can't all be idiots.
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Maybe because authors switching publishers isn't the sole indicator of predatory practices that you seem to want to make it. Whether they're idiots or not also probably has nothing to do with it.
How long are the fiction writers whose books you enjoy and admire currently under contract for?
How much would they have to sacrifice to get out of their contract early?
Would the fiction writers whose books you enjoy and admire do things the same way if they had it to do all over?
Why do people quite often stay in abusive relationships (even when they're not idiots)?
I'm not saying I agree that trad pub IS, in fact, predatory. I'm saying that a lack of authors (whose work I luvs and adores) bolting is not at all a smoking gun that they're NOT predatory. It merely implies that they're very good at keeping their stable of authors under contract.