Berg was a mere freelancer (read: no platform) when Sherman sold her tale to Sourcebooks in February.

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Dominique Raccah, publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, a Naperville, Ill.

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At Sourcebooks responsibility for making books has even been shifted from the editorial team to the firm's head of technology, underlining the need to think digitally right from the start of the commissioning process.

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