[LMB] Thor Power Tools, yet again

[James Nicoll]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Ed Burkhead wrote:

>
> The downside is that, whether it's from being too dumb to understand tax law
> or from a real change, publishers seem to have changed their warehousing
> behavior for backlist book.

 	Arguably, keeping years worth of books around is an inefficient 
way to use one's resources. The same resources invested in shorter print 
runs of more titles might net the publisher more sales over the same 
period. Granted, the author's best interests may not be served this way 
but publishers keep their own perceived self-interest paramount.

 	This is why it's best, IMO, to treat the relationship with a 
publisher as a business relationship and not a friendship. At some point, 
the interests of author and published will diverge and it's best if 
personal feeling don't get mixed up in the matter.

 	Note how I bravely argue against a position nobody has thus far 
taken.