18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?
Writing Excuses
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The Rise of the Mass Market Era of Publishing
"We've seen the individual cost of books go up twofold, three fold, four fold over the course of my career in publishing," he says. "Most of our money is now coming from hard covers ... We aren't shipping 100,000 mass markets of a debut novel anymore." Publishers are quite healthy financially in general when they're not losing lots of money trying to buy out the publishers,. But there is also part of me that has seen the readership contract because of that as the price points go up.
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