Publishing's Winner's Curse
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If publishers can no longer accurately guess at an audience even for formerly safe categories like adult trade nonfiction, will they continue to gamble so much money on big advances for a small number of books whose success is increasingly difficult to predict?
Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011