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Monday 13th February

If Self-Published Authors Owned The Midlist

Posted at 6:23AM Thursday 09 Sep 2010

Mega publishers like Simon and Schuster and Random House could someday cede the midlist to a vast army of self-published authors.

In that scenario, they'd focus instead just on blockbuster books by brand-name authors and celebrities.

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