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Originally Posted by GeoffR
That is fairly close. Another way to put it is that I want to consider books by authors who have proven they are at least able to meet the minimum standards set by publishers.
I accept that some authors are capable of meeting those standards but choose not to submit their work to a publisher, but I am happy to miss out on reading those authors if it means I can exclude the large numbers of self-published authors that are not capable of meeting even such minimal standards.
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I would like this also.
Also, I am not looking for books that are just OK. I am trying to discover new authors that are really good. And the probability to make such a discovery is greater if I look at books that have been filtered and hopefully actively worked on by a professional editor.
Fixing typos and grammar is just the first step. What you also need to get right is the structure and the voice or voices in the book and so on.