Thread: Book publishers see their role as gatekeepers shrink
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Old 12-30-2010, 10:39 PM   #54
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
And led to a glut of boy wizard type books being published as everyone tried to cash in on its unexpected success. Meanwhile, lots of other books were rejected because they didn't contain any boy wizards.
Really? How many? Of the 270,000 books published in the US last year, how many of them were about boy wizards? And how many books were rejected solely because they didn't have boy wizards?

If anything, the indies are worse in this regard; there are hundreds of indies writing "paranormal romance" series in the style of Twilight.
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