You don't have to buy books by the "big publishers".

The big corporate publishers might have been, but that's something else entirely.

Just because a big publisher is doing my first novel, that doesn't make me attractive.

"Obviously, the big American publishers are looking at it very seriously, and some foreign ones as well."

In addition, big publishers may lose some power to push new publications.

The little guys serve as farm teams for big publishers.

In this case, the big publishers can feel good about themselves.

"You won't see me behind some big publisher's desk," he said.

"The problem is the big publishers have been swallowing up all the smaller ones."

The idea is not to have a million small publishers or one big publisher.