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They actually do. Editors for big publishing companies have huge amounts of creative license, stipulated by contract, over the author. It's not much different. And then when you add publishing companies into the mix (with which Shueisha is both: editing and publishing), you get authors that lose the ability to choose covers for their novels, the means in which it is published, distributed, advertised, and even what font the cover is in. The world of publishing is far from creative. The difference between novels and manga is that with novels, you can self-publish and attain phenomenal success. With manga, you have shit without a label.