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Originally Posted by Lemurion
A thriving indie market/industry is a good thing - but I don't want to see any authors closing any avenue before they've considered it. I think many authors may choose not to go with commercial publishers, but I think this should be a rational choice, not a simple dismissal.
Submitting to others is the greatest cure for golden word syndrome yet found - and the last thing the world needs is more writers suffering from that.
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I agree. And I suspect that many indie publishers use the method to get their work out there, even though they know it's going to be like peeing in the Atlantic. In the meantime, they're pushing their work down the list of agents in the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook to see if someone bites. The publisher's sole value to the writer is that he gets the book in front of the reading public, which indie publishing doesn't.