"So when a publisher tells you he “shares your frustration”, ask him how
much he earns – and quite how little he’d pay his lowest paid editorial
assistant before he felt he was exploiting the vulnerability of their
position. Before he felt he was endangering the long term sustainability
of his business. Publishing
is a market, but it is also a fragile ecosystem, and right now we are
losing not just individual writers but entire species of authors."
Read the full article at The Guardian, here.
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