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Originally Posted by moonshot
Most professions have a training period and a learning curve and so it should be with anyone who puts pen to paper and then uploaded it to Amazon and uses the word author in the given sense.
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In the US, there are very few professions that are required by law to have any sort of minimum standards, except for the legal and medical professions and some construction trades jobs. I've been a programmer for over 30 years, and I've never once taken any sort of tests to get "certified".
A lot of self-published authors are in writers groups, and discuss their works and have multiple readers before they upload their books, and it's not clear to me that this is all that much different from having an editor from a publisher. Publishers have a limited number of slots available in their publishing cycle, and just because someone's book doesn't meet the publishers' needs for one of those slots, doesn't mean that the book isn't worth publishing.