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Originally Posted by cHex
You miss the entire point here. If those people were not going to be immediately available, the author just wanted not to be required to submit something to them until they were available to receive what he was being required to submit. I know I feel disrespected when I am given a deadline, and meet that deadline, only to discover that the next step in the process has to wait while the people who set the deadline finish their vacation.
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I've had publishers pull this and it
really annoys me. Fortunately, most don't do this.
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Originally Posted by cHex
The author's point is well made; that the publishing industry has its head buried in the sand and that's going to come up and bite them if they don't shape up: "I think you really ought to speed up. It’s not so hard. Modern businesses run fast, there’s people who know how to make that happen. Three months from agreement in principle to contract, followed by a six week breaching-of-contract delay? Not okay. Amazon’s publishing wing doesn’t make mistakes like that."
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Certainly, many conventional publishers are astonishingly slow. With arcane workflows and processes that have no modern rationale. Which doesn't change the fact that I find it hard to imagine ANY publisher giving this guy a $65k advance.