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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
What I find interesting about this thread is the concept of a "bad book". At least until the internet age, somebody (a publisher) had to think a story was good enough to make money off of, or else the book wouldn't exist. The <really> bad books never saw the light of day. ...
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Sometimes an author's reputation will let them get away with something really bad. The publisher assumes it'll sell anyhow.
I think Agatha Christie's 'Passenger to Frankfurt' is a book that would never have been published if somebody else had written it.