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I think a large part of the problem is the attempt to view publishing as a monolithic enterprise. It's not. Things are vastly different in trade nonfiction; they are vastly different in "non-New York" publishing areas, such as Christian publishing; they are vastly different in academic and nontrade publishing; they are even substantially (that is, less than vastly) different across different publishing categories within fiction. If anything, children's fiction is the most-extreme outlier—as Olga Litowinsky once remarked, "it's a bunny-eat-bunny world." Trying to draw conclusions about publishing as a whole from experiences solely within children's fiction publishing is about as valid as drawing conclusions about average American stature from NBA rosters.

"Fewmet" I cannot speak for. Lösung means "answer or solution," connoting "the best among many." Losungswort, as Anon indicates, means "key" or "password," and seems to come from "secret word." Although I do not have any contemporary religious sources available, I would be surprised if Lösung were to be used in a theological context, but I suppose that it's possible. If Losungswort were used in such a context, I would think it would be more Kabbalistic, but again I don't have sources that are much post-Nietzsche auf deutsch.

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