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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Those god-like, hands-on skills are no longer a part of the service packages provided by the traditional publisher. Yet the industry pretends that nothing has changed—that the services they provide authors are just as valuable now as when there were giants.
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The fact that the quality of editing in the industry has gone down, does of course not mean anything about the necessity of editing a manuscript. Editing doesn't make a bad book good, but it makes decent story better. The pulp that is produced these days by publishing houses and even more so by independent authors if often horrifying.
The shortsightedness of those making claims about quantities of books sold despite the lack of an editor make me wonder what they care about, what their goals are. A couple of quick bucks or a good story?