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Originally Posted by fugazied
They want to remain the top dogs, holding onto ineffective costly practices which they could afford when Stephen King paperback sales bought them new buildings. IMO they don't care about customers or literature, they just want to maintain a profitable model which has worked for them in the past.
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I can not agree with this. Editors I know are passionate about literature, even if their employers aren't. Publishers are businesses and have to care about their customers or they do not survive.
There are many things in the publishing model that need to change, like territoriality, but these are not just held onto for the publishers profit. Try negotiating with an Author's Agent for worldwide rights when they think they can make more by selling the same rights many times to different publishers on each side of the Atlantic.