Thread: Ursula K. Le Guin: “I keep Asking You Not to Buy Books from Amazon”
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Old 07-25-2015, 08:11 PM   #170
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Originally Posted by conan50 View Post
The fantasy that traditional publishers found these great new authors to present to us died long ago. Actually the place to discover great new authors is Amazon and other self-publishing outlets. Those same 'great' traditional publishers turned down "Harry Potter" numerous times and had closed the door to many new authors.
This is just a bad argument. Harry Potter was published by a traditional publisher. It is not the case that big publisher misses a lot of best selling authors.
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