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Originally Posted by HarryT
True. But profit is a powerful motive for selecting those books that stand a reasonable chance of being bought, and while I do of course accept that popularity and quality are not always the same thing, if I buy a book from, say, Baen, I can confidently expect that it'll be fairly well-written and properly edited.
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Maybe, but profit, not quality, is the reason why traditional publishers despise self-published books. They fear that self-publishing platforms may gain an important market share in the future and force them to re-evaluate their business model.