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In Praise of Commercial Culture

The Marginal Revolution Podcast

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Publishers' Incentives to Discover New Authors

Alex asks about advances; Tyler explains why publishers underwrite unknown writers to earn outsized returns and the uncertainty in predicting bestsellers.

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