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Originally Posted by bob_ninja
Say a "midlist" author wants to publish a book but has no idea if it is any good. S(he) can simply post it online without any processing, editing,... some sort of very simple online store, or some community. Now nobody may read it ever, which is fine. Or few people may give it a try. Maybe s(he) persuades some friends to read it. It costs them nothing to attach their raiting, comments, etc. It may get good enough ratings that some (semi) professional takes a look at it. In my community model it would be one of the community members, gives it a read and attached comments. Now the book has "certified" comments from a community member, so it carries more weight. And so on. It may eventually have enough audience/interest to warrant editing and proper publishing, etc.
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Well, I would not like to read the unedited version if another version that can be significantly different will be published later.