Visit our Circulation department for print subscription information. It makes a show-business mentality enterprise out of what is basically a cottage industry. The fact is that there are really two book-publishing industries. She throws herself into the work until, after months and years of effort, she finishes. She sends the manuscript off to one publisher after another, and, finally, if she's lucky, she finds one who believes in the book, who works with her to improve it and who then sends it out into the bookstores to make its way and find its audience.
Many books never find an audience, others win just a small readership.
But sometimes, lightning strikes. The book becomes a best seller. The publisher gets rich. So does the author. The second, newer type of publishing industry, however, turns that pattern on its head.