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Old 08-06-2010, 05:07 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by MartinParish View Post
The publishing industry has never done a very good job of choosing books. Many of the books they choose don't make money; many of the ones they reject again and again eventually become bestsellers.
Since they became bestsellers they were not rejected by all publishers. Also I think very few books that gets rejected a lot ends up as best sellers. There are some famous examples but really how many are there?

As a reader the publishing industry do a good job selecting books that are readable and well written. Since I do not have time to read all the books I want to read that are published the traditional way I do not see why I should take the chance to read something self-published.
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