Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:08:06 -0500



In article ,
Patrick M. Berry  wrote:

>I hope that's just unconfirmed hearsay, because it would be a very foolish
>thing for a professional author to say.  Without the fans, the SF/fantasy
>publishing business would not exist.  Who would buy the books?

The rest of the readers.  Publishers wouldn't hardly notice the drop.

JWC once[1] said that he couldn't edit Analog for the fans, they were
too small a fraction of his readers.

Seth

[1] For a large value of "one"

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