|
A publisher is a much stronger filter than any recommendation could ever be. That book isn't going to be on the shelves at all if the publisher doesn't accept it. When you're browsing for books in store, and you pick up a copy to flip through the pages to see if it might be worthwhile, might it not be possible that someone's recommendation influenced you to take a look at that book? Someone who is genuinely uninfluenced by the recommendations of others would be about as rare as hen's teeth, but it is of course possible.
|