3) Publishers hate having to keep an entire series in print.
This one isn't completely accurate, although it used to feel that way <rueful g>; if the series is selling at a certain level, the entire series is always in print. It's the books that don't meet a certain sales level that lapse -- and if they're part of a series, it kills the sales of the later books by default, limiting the pool of readers to only those who did pick up the first book, and not in large enough numbers. Not all of those will then continue with the series.
However, if it's a question of warehousing, accounting, etc., then that's what it is -- I would have vastly preferred that to be said up front, though.
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Date: 2004-08-13 08:08 pm (UTC)This one isn't completely accurate, although it used to feel that way <rueful g>; if the series is selling at a certain level, the entire series is always in print. It's the books that don't meet a certain sales level that lapse -- and if they're part of a series, it kills the sales of the later books by default, limiting the pool of readers to only those who did pick up the first book, and not in large enough numbers. Not all of those will then continue with the series.
However, if it's a question of warehousing, accounting, etc., then that's what it is -- I would have vastly preferred that to be said up front, though.