The publishers 'position isn't all that unreasonable when you consider how many manuscripts are produced every year. According to The Making of a Bestseller, which analyzes how writers, agents, critics, publishers and distributors work together to move readers, agents in the US receive an average of about 90 submissions per week, but take on an average of only 11 new clients per year.
再說，別以為創作是偉大天賦，據解讀作家、經紀人、書評家、出版社及通路商如何聯手撼動讀者的《暢銷書的故事》一書中指出，在美國，每位經紀人每週平均收到 90 件投稿，但每年平均只增加 11 位客戶。