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Traditionalist do understand that while the odds of one self-published title selling a million copies is near zero, the odds of a 100 self-pubbed t1tles selling 10,000 each is significant and the odds of 1000 selling a million in aggregate are practically a given. And that is a million sales that won't go to a trad-pubbed title.
That is an effect we are seeing, no?
Best sellers aren't selling as well as they used to.
Which makes me wonder just how well Grafton's latest are moving?
(Hey, *she* gratuitously brought up self-publishing into the interview! It apparently has been on her mind...)
Sadly, I smell fear.
Unnecesary fear, too.
Grafton says she has six unpublished early works from before she became a peddler of her cookie-cutter mystery series; with *her* name and brand behind them, she could self-publish them and find out how good they really are.
Let the "universe" tell her if the publishers were right or not to reject her.
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Exactly. Let the readers be the gatekeeper. It's fine to have other gatekeeprs because not every reader wants the same reviewer, publisher or whatnot being the gatekeeper. There's room for more than one, just like there's room for more than one way to publish.
I bet some of her earlier work would be better than some of her later stuff...just my opinion. Her latest stuff lacks imagination and forward development. It's stale.