C h a z z W r i t e s . c o m

There are roughly 180,000 books produced in english each year in North America according to the president of Harper Collins. 465 of them sold more than 100,000 copies last year. The majority sold under 99 copies.

So…doesn’t this mean that for all the hoopla, publishers suck at their jobs? Sure, you could blame writers, but writers aren’t the gatekeepers, are they? Editors and agents are. That’s a failure rate that would get you fired in any other industry. No wonder we need to blow the dust off and take another look at how the whole business is conducted.

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