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Trying to explain the publishing business to anyone who hasn’t been involved with it is ... not fun. Therapists in particular.
I spent a fair amount of time explaining publishing to my therapist. She spent most of it with her jaw on the floor.
She's mostly struck by the vast chasm between the creativity required to write a book and the clinical mechanism necessary to sell one. I imagine with self-publishing it's worse, but even with trade there's a point at which the people around you expect you easily roll with the cold retail side of things.
I think people in other industries have a hard time believing how odd publishing can be.