As well, whether you know it or not, you're causing your own work to compete against each other in addition to any other submissions the publisher received from other writers. Consequently, there is little or no wastage in printing. However, this is new and there is an opportunity for problems to develop. Currently, authors are being charged by most POD publishers to have their books carried with no guarantee that the POD publisher will attempt to develop a true market. This is a letter used to find out if the publisher or agent is interested in seeing your work.
Most publishers state in their guidelines whether they want to be queried first.
Generally, magazine publishers are unlikely to want a query unless the work is overly long or extremely unusual. Some book publishers want to be queried. These charges may constitute the only business income or a significant portion thereof. A publisher who pays the author. Generally, the turnaround time required to hear back from a publisher based upon when the manuscript was submitted.