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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
Isn't that a contradiction in terms? How can you compete with a published author who has a five book deal with a publishing house and all of the support that provides? I don't understand why the word unpublished has this codicil attached to it that says you have to give your work away for nothing. Are unpublished authors really that desperate? Why do we feel that our work is any less valuable than someone who has a contract with a publisher?
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It often is less valuable in the sense that many self-published authors don't have their work professionally edited. There's an old saying that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client; that's even more applicable to authors: anyone who thinks that they can edit their own work is kidding themselves. Editing is what generally makes a book commercially viable.