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Mark Gilroy December 4, 2011

Why Does It Take So Long to Get a Book Published?

It takes forever to get published! Or so it seems. Why does it take so long for a traditional book publisher to take a book to market? Impatient and sometimes frustrated authors don’t realize that it’s not just the tasks of designing, editing, and printing a book that take time – and those things do take time. But what spreads the process out longest is working with the sales cycle of the key bookseller accounts. Let me explain why it takes so long to get published.

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