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Old 01-03-2011, 12:09 PM   #304
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
Go to any publishers website and you will find clear concise guidelines as to what they buy (fiction or non-fiction), length of manuscript and genre (in the case of fiction), but it sounds like they don't do anything like that at Amazon and then just go about yanking books off the shelves without making it clear as to why they were pulled. To me that just doesn't sound like good business.
So if you send a manuscript to a publisher that meets their guidelines, they will publish it?

Of course they won't, which is why these calls for written standards are so intellectually dishonest. Normal publishers don't do this and no one complains of censorships. Amazon presumptively publishes *everything*, and yet get accused of censorship despite the fact that they reject an order of magnitude smaller number of books.
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