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just off a long call with an editor at a press. among many things, we talked about how publishing gravitates toward high-certainty book projects and projects which are illusory in their high certainty of success. (the large investment of time required for publishing is what makes publishers grasp for certainty that the investment is worth it)
i wrote prev about the issues of publishing that seeks only sure-wins: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/43-a-new-market-of-ideas
and heard about a book on the sociology of producing a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691191874/under-the-cover
and a famous author's challenges in publishing a book unlike the books that got her famous: https://substack.com/home/post/p-183345681
which reminded me of howie becker on ecosystems of art production: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/art-worlds-25th-anniversary-edition/paper
and craig mod on creating his own production ecosystem: https://craigmod.com/essays/successful_memberships/
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