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Originally Posted by Farhad
Now, just like with ALL of the Internet, most of it is, as you say, complete garbage. But that is due to the quantity and ease-of-access nature of the Internet, not to any inherent limitations of the talents of free publishing authors.
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Pretty much every author needs a professional editor to make their work readable, and most self-publishing authors can't afford to - or choose not to - pay for an editor themselves. That's the most valuable service that a traditional publisher provides to an author: editing. It has nothing to do with the writing abilities of the author; editing is a different skill to writing, and very few good writers are also good editors.