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Originally Posted by HarryT
It was (and remains) an important role of the publisher to filter out the crap.
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But they also filter out a lot of good books. A dozen of them filtered out 'Harry Potter' and lost a billion dollars in the process, for example, and horror publishers seem to have been filtering out anything other than 'Twilight' rip-offs and 'James Joyce, zombie hunter' novels.
There's an interesting essay called 'On the survival of rats in the slush pile' which goes into some detail on why the slush pile as a submission system is a disaster for both writers and publishers. I'm not sure I entirely agree with it, but it does make a lot of sense.