Thread: ‘There will be no more professional writers in the future’
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Old 08-02-2012, 08:52 PM   #140
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
Why the happy face about a book being on a list you dissed?
I diss the list because it is a purely commercial ranking yet some take it as some kind of validation/badge of quality. The trad-pub industry has lived by that list for decades and now it is being undercut by it. (I expect a flood of attempts to deprecate the rankings, now...)

The happy face refers to the WAG overstatement: for all I know a self-pub'ed title could hit #1 next week or five years from now.
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