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Old 03-26-2011, 12:31 PM   #48
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I don't follow links unless they show exactly where they're going, so I didn't read the article, but I certainly do care about the quality of the writing.
Any link could contain a redirect instead of going where it appears to be going. But in this case, the actual URL is http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/...atter-anymore/

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So gatekeepers are good because they separate the wheat from the chaff, etc. etc. There is a major point missing from this argument: readers don’t care. Bad, “unpublishable” books are finding an audience. I cannot claim to have read many of the books on the Kindle self-published bestseller list, but without a doubt there are many books that some people would find totally inept, but are finding an audience with many honest 5-star reviews.
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At the risk of sounding like a snob: non-sophisticated readers will not care if writing is non-sophisticated, and there are a lot more non-sophisticated readers than sophisticated ones.
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