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Beal: Hitting bestseller lists requires paid orchestration unless authors are famous
“If you want to be on the bestsellers list, unless you are very well known and you're working with a publisher that's pulling out all the stops, then you've got to get the right sales at the right time at the right channels in order to get on the bestsellers li…”
Beal: Traditional publishers rely on authors' personal networks to drive sales
“For the average author, that's not the case. And I think that's a big misnomer that the, you know, the publisher is going to pull out all the stops to help you sell the books. Yeah, they get you into the bookstores. Yeah, they get you in the different distribu…”