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Just trying to move this topic to a better area:
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LloydBrown said:You're right. The author has the responsibility to turn in the best manuscript he can. Beyond that, it's up to the publisher.
But that's going off-topic. Let's say you do a truly heroic job of promoting your book and 3,000 people want to go buy it. They go to their local bookstore, where they meet with disappointment because it's not there. Then most of them buy another book and go home.
A fraction of those customers attempt to special-order it, only to find the bookstore doesn't won't order it. You lose another fraction of those potential sales.
Some readers go home and look for your book online, where they might or might not buy it after they get over their sticker shock. When they get it, they might be disappointed at the POD quality, which will make selling that next book to them all the more difficult.
Hence the reason why the average number of sales for self-published books and others in the same camp (POD, no distribution, no/poor editing, etc.) sell fewer than 100 copies, despite all the author's noise and desire.