For most of publishing history, authors rarely thought about data. Success was measured through visible signals: book sales, bookstore placement, bestseller lists, and reader feedback. Authors wrote stories, publishers distributed them, and retailers handled the rest. Digital publishing changed this structure in ways that were not immediately obvious. Over time, publishing has quietly become a data-driven system, where information about readers, behavior, and engagement shape

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