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Originally Posted by Catlady
Let's say the supermarket has a second pallet of avocados that are all guaranteed to be fresh and are USDA certified as organic. They cost a bit more, but, hey, they're better quality. You can hunt through the first pallet, if you don't mind handling rotten avocados, and maybe find some decent ones, or you can quickly grab a handful from the second pallet and get down to the business of eating.
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True. But do you really think traditional publishing does such a good job as curators/gatekeepers that their books equate to the second pallet. If this was in fact the case they may actually get away with charging a premium. Unfortunately, I think the second pallet makes all the claims but in fact the quality is the same as the first pallet but with most of the truly rotten ones taken out. Far better in this case to shop from the first pallet, since the rotten ones are easy to spot and exclude from consideration.