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Originally Posted by jgaiser
And who gets to define Bad Books? Moonshot? Kozlowski?
No, what moonshot/Michael Kozlowski want is the end of self-published books. The rest of the traditional publishers probably also would like to see self-publish go away, but moonshot/Michael Kozlowski is just more blatant. Unfortunately, as has been pointed out again and again in this thread, it ain't gonna happen. The Jinni is out of the bottle. There's no way to go back to the good old days when traditional publishers were the only gatekeepeers and they didn't have to share the profits.
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And perhaps, just perhaps, if we weren't valid competition for trad books, no one would notice or care that we were there at all. The fact is, self-published books are selling right now and that threatens some entities, including publishers. We are competition. Some trad published authors embrace us as one of their own and we all help each other. Some do not. Some readers embrace all authors, some don't.
But any way you cut it, Amazon isn't likely to Scarlett Letter self-published books if they are making money and if people continue to buy them.