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anamardoll · 01-31-2012, 08:12 AM

Lord, if I hear one more word about "gatekeepers".

I review books for a hobby. I have so many ARCs that I will never ever be able to read them all. 99.9% of them are from "gatekeepers". The signal-to-noise ratio is not lower in the "gatekeeper" pile than in the indie pile, I can assure you.

It's like all these newspaper writers who only read one NYT Bestseller a year just automatically assume that all traditionally published books meet the same quality bar because the publishers magically make it so.

01-31-2012, 08:12 AM	#3
anamardoll Chasing Butterflies Posts: 3,132 Karma: 5074169 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: American Southwest Device: Uses batteries.	Lord, if I hear one more word about "gatekeepers". I review books for a hobby. I have so many ARCs that I will never ever be able to read them all. 99.9% of them are from "gatekeepers". The signal-to-noise ratio is not lower in the "gatekeeper" pile than in the indie pile, I can assure you. It's like all these newspaper writers who only read one NYT Bestseller a year just automatically assume that all traditionally published books meet the same quality bar because the publishers magically make it so.