They wouldn’t waste any of their precious time or money promoting your book, that was the author’s job.

30 years later, still :))) you gotta be careful, it's certainly a difficult terrain to navigate (it was fun glimpsing into the past through this, my friend). I've got a friend who's just shaping up to self-pub his first poetry collection, I tried to help him a bit with advice, but it does still feel like the Wild West every time, doesn't it?