Not a Zero-Sum Game

One thing that comes up periodically from certain corners of the author world is the idea that for every book published by one of the Big 5, that's one less book someone else will successfully sell to that publisher. Or that for every major book deal and advance given out, that means a certain of smaller, debut authors will never get a shot because there is no money for them anymore.


It's an argument used by certain proponents of "traditional" genre fiction when discussing the push to have mor...