[Lagarto]

There must be dozens of books that I'd like to see and I couldn't possibly write them all by myself, that's nonsense - I'd like to buy such books but it doesn't mean that I'm willing to accept every price thrown at me. Hope it sounds like a good reason.
I can only be grateful to those authors who did agree to surrender a degree of control over their work, so that hundreds of readers could buy their books at a decent price, a truly selfless act. As a translator I work with publishers on daily basis, and have to do my own battles with editors, but with a bit of mutual respect and good will it's not that painful. Even if Grub Street editors interfere with their authors' work, the end result is still top notch, so maybe that's the way to go. Otherwise everyone gets frustrated: the author because of only 300 copies sold, and readers because of high price.