Apparently you assume that the publisher will not listen to its customers, but only to its authors. This thinking seems oddly hostile, or at least odd. True, the publisher is nowhere without its authors, so must do its best to please them. But has it not occurred that the publisher is also nowhere without its customers, so must do its best to please them, too?
Apparently you assume that the publisher will not listen to its customers, but only to its authors.
To be fair, there are some publishers who don't listen to their customers. Of course, there are also some publishers who don't listen to their authors. I think that, the smaller the publisher, the more they listen to both their customers and their authors. Which is ...refreshing.
My experience has been that publishers don't listen to either, but maybe I've had bad experiences. I'd still always go first to the person providing the problem, rather than to one of their, um, suppliers. But I thought that comment hadn't posted, and I was half-pleased as I'd had time for second thoughts, so I'm certainly not going to defend it further.
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Date: 2005-08-04 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-04 10:42 am (UTC)To be fair, there are some publishers who don't listen to their customers. Of course, there are also some publishers who don't listen to their authors. I think that, the smaller the publisher, the more they listen to both their customers and their authors. Which is ...refreshing.
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Date: 2005-08-04 12:35 pm (UTC)