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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
But they also filter out a lot of good books. A dozen of them filtered out 'Harry Potter' and lost a billion dollars in the process, for example, and horror publishers seem to have been filtering out anything other than 'Twilight' rip-offs and 'James Joyce, zombie hunter' novels.
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I'm sure you're right, but it's pretty irrelevant to me, as a reader. As long as publishers are publishing a sufficient number of good books to satisfy me (and I seem to have several life-times' worth of reading material on my "TBR" list), I don't really care what's
not being published.
If an author can make a go of it via self-publishing, good luck to them, but it's not for me. Life is too short to waste reading reams of garbage in the hope of finding that rare gem.