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Chris Hamilton-Emery's summation of Salt's crazy couple of months:

Thank heavens there’s no consensus on how one runs a literary press, the diversity of approaches can be quite staggering. However, I’ll make one distinction at the start of this note, I’m going to talk about those publishers who live off their literature publishing and are dependent on its sales. It’s an important distinction, because the trajectory of one's work as a marketer, publicist, sales representative, editor, all change with respect to whether one earns one’s living from publishing and selling books; whether you pay your mortgage and car loan with those sales. It changes your entire experience of literature and especially of what it is possible for you to publish: your view of what constitutes great literature lies within the boundaries of what you can effectively sell and profit, or make a surplus, from.

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