> South End Press is openly radical in organization; but if they
> could've given you a better deal, could distribute your book better,
> etc, then you probably would've gone with them instead...
In fairness to Verso, the structural problem is that sales of books, like all other purchased cultural material, are highly unpredictable. As a rule, one out of ten books, films, movies, TV shows, and videogames will hit the jackpot, and the rest either barely break even or lose money. So the few winners end up subsidizing the rest.
Markets are a terrible way to organize cultural production, but that's the world we live in -- and must change.
-- DRR