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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Somehow, nobody ever holds the bean counters to account...
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Sure they do: Bean-counters are held accountable for counting beans. And if a product of low quality brings in more beans than a product of high quality, no matter how it was accomplished, the bean-counters have done their job.
The publishing industry has been listening exclusively to their bean-counters for so long that they can't imagine any other way to function, which is why badly-written indie books with high sales like
50 Shades get snapped up instead of well-written books that no one discovers.
The best part of this is that an indie author who does well gets snapped up by a major publisher; at which time, they are no longer an indie author, and the publishers can continue to say there are no successful indie authors...