Thread: Dear Publishers,
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Old 02-02-2010, 12:38 PM   #30
Pardoz
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It's a great option for midlist authors to keep their backlist available, but not quite so useful for people just starting out.
Agreed, absolutely (although it's a potential gold-mine for publishers too).

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Publishers are necessary, and they're not evil. I've met several and all the ones I know are book people. They do however, want to make enough money to keep the books coming.
Agreed, with provisions. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, big cheese over at Tor? He's a great guy, very much a book person, cares about books and writers. His boss, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan-US? He's in the business of moving widgets and on the record as saying that publishing is a dead-end business. The partners who own Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH (which owns Macmillan, which owns Tor)? They don't know Patrick Nielsen Hayden exists, and the number of widgets being moved by one US subsidiary is nothing more than a dot in a curve in a Powerpoint presentation at the board meeting.
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