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7 – I really can’t eexsprs the level of stress I was under. I wasn’t even aware of it. It looks massive in retrospect, just on the possibility of my being able to do stuff on my own, I suspect if this experiment works, I’ll be discovering even stranger heights to how stressed I was.Stress seems to be a major factor. You aren\'t the only person who has mentioned this.Now the traditional publishers can\'t be all that stupid. They should understand that they are putting their suppliers, the writers, under intense stress.I could see that long before I started writing professionally. I\'m an old line SF fan, and I know a lot of writers. Talk to them, and you could see how most of them are under intense stress. This may be why some of them are so incredibly hard to deal with in person. They come to a con, and the stress they are under makes them into absolute jerks (from my comment on your earlier article ). If you stress out the people who are supplying you, the product they supply is likely to suffer from quality issues. I saw this happen when I was working in the forklift industry. Management would push a supplier to get better pricing. If they pushed the supplier too hard, quality would go to hell, and it would end up costing us more than we gained. Even if the product itself was fine, they stress would show up in other ways, like delivery issues, short shipments, bad packaging The scary part was that management knew this was happening. They would even admit it. But they wouldn\'t stop doing it. They had this intense drive to maximize profits, and it didn\'t matter to them who they ruined to do it. They figured that they\'d just switch suppliers if there was a problem. And to a certain extent this could work, if there were enough suppliers making something like spark plugs. If there weren\'t, well, they would blame purchasing for not doing a good enough job, even though it was a management decision that ruined the supplier relationship.Dean keeps saying that the traditional publishers will survive. I\'m really not so sure about that.Wayne
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