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Originally Posted by vxf
I know it may be tempting to have faith in the 'mass-consensus' and viral marketing of the internet. But, if you truly believe that professional reviewers and editors are not needed, that the public is capable of identifying high-quality work, then remember that the three biggest literary phenomena of the past years have been Dan Brown, Twilight and Stieg Larsson.
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You forgot Harry Potter, and I actually like Stieg Larsson, so there's that. Furthermore, the success of all these books can't be divorced from the marketing. If you want to use Twilight as an example that the gatekeepers we have suck, I would point out that Twilight was not self-published, so it's just as much an argument that the big houses aren't doing their job of peer review and editing.
