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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Some of you insist on making the assumption that all books published by the BPH are gold and nothing is wrong with them.
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BPH's still have, to my mind, a useful role as "gatekeepers" in filtering out the worst of the crap. I know, for example, that if I buy a book from Baen (a specialist SF/Fantasy publisher) that it's going to be decently edited and that I'm very likely to enjoy it. The reason I don't buy much SF/Fantasy from independent authors is that the overwhelming majority of it is unedited garbage that no BPH would pick up in a million years. There are exceptions, but I don't have time to find the rare gem amongst the flood of rubbish - I prefer to let publishers do it for me. Perhaps that will change over time as more good-quality books are produced by independent authors; I very much hope that is the case.