Why aren’t any US publishers publishing lines like this? Or this, from the fantasy perspective. Wow. (No insult meant to Tor, whose reprint line is delightful; mild snide perhaps for Baen, since I’m still mournful about the Telzey edits.)
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Why aren’t any US publishers publishing lines like this? Or this, from the fantasy perspective. Wow. (No insult meant to Tor, whose reprint line is delightful; mild snide perhaps for Baen, since I’m still mournful about the Telzey edits.)
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I direct you to Schiffrin’s _The Business of Books_ & Epstein’s _Book Business_.
In short, the corporatization of the publishing industry, and now, media convergence.
Indeed. The midlist is dying a painful death, these days — once authors get stuck in that category, there’s no future. I know of a couple of authors who’ve taken pseudonyms in order to evade the stigma of being “midlist.”
It’s the intention of BenBella Books to do just that: publish out of print masterworks, along with new stuff, both in science fiction/fantasy and in pop culture non-fiction. Their first two reprints are _The Man Who Folded Himself_ and _The Sheep Look Up_.