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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And that is exactly the wrong thing for the wider culture. If we publish what has the greatest potential to earn out, then all we'll have is celebrity biographies, ghost-written celebrity novels and Dan Brown. Is that the book culture you want? You want mindless pablum for the rest of time, because if profit is the bottom line, then that's all you'll ever get (not that the traditional publishers aren't doing that right now).
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This is where ebooks and something like the Espresso Machine for POD hard copy books would be great. An unproven author could be paid only for books that are sold and only books sold would be printed. Once the author is established, go to offset printing (and reap additional profit on the economies of scale presented by offset printing). Let the long tail do its thing.