Watching a Sanderson video on how to publish your novel. S. says how it used to be publishers would also publish "mid-listers", books that had a steady fan base but not bestsellers. Now, the big publishers just want bestsellers. Why? 1/
Sanderson says that that it's because of indy publishing. If you can self-publish and have a fan base you'll be better off than if you're mid-listing at a big publisher. But I'm not so sure. It seems to me this is really driven by the publishing world. 2/
Another thing that's remarkable is how the shifting/slush reading is now done by agents and basically you can't (already for a while) send directly to big publishers. So you get all these middle-people where no middle-person used to exist (cf also real estate etc). 3/
Anyway, watching this makes me kinda glad you can simply just still approach an academic publisher directly. You send them a pitch/book proposal they'll invite a full MS if interested, they'll send you feedback. It's really wonderful. Never change, academic publishers! /end
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