Gandor,
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Many Many years ago in the days of our great grandfathers, anyone could write a book, be it fiction or not and organise thier own printing and distribution and retailing.
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Of course, you could get something privately printed in the 19th century, but in these cases the print run would have been very, very low indeed. If you wanted to have some commercial success, you needed a publisher / write for a magazine even back then. At least in the UK, that is.
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Of course they would need to get thier own copy editors. I would imagine that some of the authors would have to learn to do it themselves or use friends or family to do it for them as in the past.
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You need more than a copy editor who's supposed to spot grammatical and factual mistakes. You really need somebody who ruthlessly tells you what's wrong with your story. Family usually don't do that. And non-writer friends don't do it either because they don't want to hurt your feelings.