Quote:
Originally Posted by Rbneader
A surprising number of authors and publishers do still believe that libraries are bad or wrong in some way. It's astonishing.
.
|
Before e-books... How many copies would sell WITHOUT Library purchases??
Then there is the whole issue of Print Publishing. First the Publisher has to consider the possible return on a Print Run (or reprint) IIRC one SF publisher minimum run was 5K copies, which was why so many OOP of well liked titles. the next 5K will take forever and warehouse space costs money. (Which begs A 12T drive takes the same space as a 1T drive so why not keep as much backlist as the Author allows. Any sale should be welcomed.)
Even way back when... there were 'vanity presses'. where an author funded the print run, removing some of the publisher risk avoidance issues.