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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Or they are being choked out of the market.
My experience comes from a group of gay authors whose work was rejected by Dreamspinner and a few of the other big (relatively) gay romance publishers because their work didn't fit the demands of the formula needed to satify their straight female audience.
Of course, they can go indie. But there is something off to me about a company that specializes in publishing gay fiction rejecting books by gay authors, not because of their quality, but because it doesn't satisfy the wants of their non-gay audience.
It feels a bit like the old minstrel shows.
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Well, publishing is a business like any other. They want to make money. So they publish what they think will bring the most profit.
Not that I consider it to be the ideal state of affairs. But capitalism is based on profit and market demand. And we haven't managed to invent a better social order yet.