/lit/ - Literature

>>8049562
It's relevant because multitudes more books are rejected than ever published by publishers. They have absolute power in the field. An unseasoned author can be more fully manipulated than any director if he is told "this is too controversial to ever get published" or "we won't take you on if you don't change this character/these words/this event". Film producers work somewhat democratically because their turnover is small and they need releases. Publishers can cast aside anything they deem unsavoury or disagreeable. It is a purely authoritarian relationship.