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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
IN response to Catlady: Yes, they do weed out the lower echelons, there is no denying it. And I completely understand readers not wanting to waste time sampling or bothering with self-published. There are times when I just will not pick up another one for a while. It's time-consuming.
But I did read a couple of trad books lately that I'm still having a hard time believing were trad books. There are times where one man's trash is another man's treasure, no matter what *I* think. :>)
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Yes, there's no denying that the major publishing houses do put out some horrible books, but the odds are better that they've weeded out a lot of the dreck, and that when dreck gets through, at least it will adhere to minimum standards of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Whereas there's absolutely no way to know if someone's self-published work will even be coherent.
I just think it's ironic that people apparently want a way to separate the wheat from the chaff when that's exactly what the traditional publishers attempt to do. Frankly, I think the traditional publishers are more relevant than ever nowadays when every person who can use a computer thinks he or she can be a published author. Sure, some can really write something worth reading. But most can't.