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Originally Posted by stonetools
Sure you can make an impressive list of quality nonfiction and history writing over the course of centuries. But these days it's coming from the BPHS . It ain't coming Fromm the self publishers.
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A lot is coming from academic publishers--who have other sources of revenue, and other goals, besides book publications. Are you saying "only self-publishing counts as truly independent," or do you allow for any publications outside the agency model?
Can you give some standards for "quality nonfiction?" There's no point in coming up with a list of a dozen books, half biography and half other nonfic, if you're going to say "well, I've never heard of that" or "that book is on a subject too obscure to count." Nobody's questioning that the BPHs dominate the publicity of literature; we're just saying that quality writing, fiction and non, exists outside of them.