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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Both already exist and have existed for a long time. I just bought a book my Mike Duncan, Storm before the Storm, published by one of the imprints from Perseus Books Group. With all the talk of the Big 5 publishers, the publishing world isn't nearly that monolithic.
The publishing world has spun off imprints, or even small publishing houses based on particular specializations and personalities. There are hundreds of them out there.
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Perseus is owned by Hachette.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/0...eus-books.html
Most of the BPHs own dozens of not hundreds of imprints that used to be separate and independent publishing houses. Those imprints do not bid for manuscripts independently. Rather, only one imprint in each BPH bids do where once an author had hundreds of potential landing sites for their book they now have 5 and maybe a few smaller ones.
And that is assuming their agent doesn't steer the manuscript at a bargain price to a publisher they have close ties to.
It's hard to be more monolithic than that but they do keep trying.
The latest trick is refusing to deal at all unless the price includes all rights, foreign, domestic, sufio, and even movie. Of course, the offered price is the same as domestic print-only deals of a few years back.
BPH vetting comes at a steep price to both consumers and authors. And it keeps on getting steeper.