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Originally Posted by darryl
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,
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I've already acknowledged that there are authors who can meet the standards but choose not to submit their work to a publisher.
But for a filter to be useful, it dosn't have to be perfect. To get back to avocados, if the grocer grades the avocados into two bins where the first bin has 90% good avocados and 10% bad ones, and the second bin has 10% good avocados and 90% bad ones, then that is still very useful. I can save a lot of time by looking for good avocados in the first bin, even though the second bin might contain some exceptionally nice avocados.
(If we are talking ebooks, then the first bin might have 0.1% good ebooks and 99.9% crap, and the second bin 0.01% good and 99.99% crap, but I am still better off looking in the bin that only has 99.9% crap rather than in the one with 99.99% crap.)