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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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...
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This is a good point; publishers can skip the tedious task of digging through the slush pile and grab writers who have proven they can sell. They still add value through marketing power, if not editing prowess.