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Originally Posted by stonetools
The Selfish Gene was published by Oxford University Press
Silent Spring was published by Houghton Mifflin .
Watership Down was published by Rex Collings Ltd, which seems to be an imprint of BPH Penguin.
These were all traditionally published, So I'm not sure that they are arguments against the need for a traditional publisher. Certainly, they are far different from the usual self-pub fare.
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Of course they were traditionally published. There was almost no alternative in those days. Times have changed. My point is that getting an advance from a BPH should not be a pre-requiste for publishing, and that many of the best books in history were written in absence of an advance from a publisher.