Traditional publishing companies often do not share metrics with the author and in many cases don't have real time information to this sort of data themselves.
Not exact matches
Modern authors
often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more
traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big
publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider
publishing it.
Keeping your profits
Traditional publishers and many
publishing services
companies pay royalties, which are
often minimal.
These smaller press
companies are
often mistaken with self -
publishing ventures or vanity press businesses, but they are still solidly operating under the
traditional publishing model.
But they are (at the same time)
often owned (meaning majority shares) by a larger
publishing company above them, and so on up and up and up until worldwide there are basically six big conglomerates that have fingers in most large
traditional publishing companies.