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Originally Posted by caviedogz
Would it be alright to publish the book online first then approach publishers or would publishers take a dim view of this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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If your novel sells 100,000 Kindle copies in the first week, publishers will be delighted to meet you, otherwise not.
If you are interested in trying the traditional publishing route, you should do that first. About 10 per cent of the agents/small publishers you send your novel to will look at it and you may get some useful comments if nothing else - you may even strike lucky. You should calculate on 30-40 rejections before you start looking at alternatives.
If you go straight to direct publishing you will almost certainly sell x+10 copies (x being the number of friends and relations you have) in the first year. This will not be enough to excite any publisher.
Incidentally, I don't know what things are like in Australia, but in the UK no publisher of any size will accept submissions directly.