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Originally Posted by GeoffR
If publishers' standards are so low, all the more reason to try and avoid books by those authors who can't meet them!
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Does not follow. The assumption implicit in your statement is that where an author is not traditionally published it is because they cannot meet the publishers standards. Which of course has never been correct. In fact, given the exploitative terms in traditional publishing contracts and the availability of a viable alternative now in self-publishing I expect fewer and fewer authors to go the traditional path. Unless, of course, publishers finally adapt, which most have demonstrated a marked inability to do so far,