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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I am not all hot and bothered about the grammatically incorrect books on Smashwords. If the author is truly unskilled, the technical errors will occur early enough in the book that very little of my time is wasted and I can move on to greener pastures. I'm more concerned about the quality of the book content - and in that regard, I do not think the publishers are effective gatekeepers because they are too busy trying to push out the next big thing than to make or suggest meaningful edits. (Not that this strategy doesn't work for them, but that's another post entirely.)
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Us and Them. Nope, everyone is a publisher and hopefully lots will be gatekeepers. We can discuss the quality of a particular book all day long, but it is likely the case that the creator thinks their creation is of the highest quality. What to do? We could do nothing, always an option. Or we could just become each other's gatekeepers as we already do, other things too I suppose.