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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Self pubbing means that as a rule no experienced editor has gone over the book to identify superfluous material, and these days with trad pub slashing its editing staff willy-nilly, major printed books are going that way too.
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No, it does not.
Sorry, no such "rule".
Overgeneralizing like that doesn't help your argument. Especially since many, if not most, of the professional editorial staff slashed by the corporate publishers now make their living editing indie books.