16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 11 p.m.

Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon
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\nIt sounds like a mean thing to say, but it's not a wrong thing to say. A publisher is a corporation, and a corporation doesn't have friends. It has contractual relationships. We can make friends with people who work for publishers, but those are not the same thing.
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\nLiner Notes: here is an archived copy of Dave Brady's essay about "company loyalty"
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\nCredits: This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, and mastered by Alex Jackson
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