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I'm sure the Brits (Pip! Pip!) on this board would be happy to help out - up to a point, of course...
And good to see the Great British Understatement in full flow...
"For example, authors who were only ever published outside the great centres of literary life have tended not to remain in print and have often been forgotten..."
So, nothing whatsoever to do with the money-grubbing, snouts-in-the-trough, avaricious nature of publishers, salesmen (sorry, agents), lawyers (sorry, agents) and bankers (sorry, lawyers) then..?
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