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Originally Posted by hildea
- The publishers are getting more greedy, and prefer to republish old books with a minimum of effort instead of building up new authors whose works need more editing to be publishable.
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I like slagging on publishers as much as the next guy, but I don't find the above to be true. Over time, visits to Barnes and Noble show me fewer and fewer works by authors I grew up reading. They are gradually replaced by newer authors I am unfamiliar with.
Ebooks can help keep older things available. But it is untrue that newer authors aren't being published because the big 5 are too focused on the old guard.