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Originally Posted by darryl
This is of course your prerogative. Personally I regard whether something has been traditionally published as a very poor criterion. Big Publishing's track record as curator or gatekeeper is IMHO woeful. So much absolute garbage has been published by them and so much worthwhile excluded. I wouldn't trust them to shop for my avocados!
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Worthwhile? I do not want to read worthwhile books. I want to read really good books. It is easy to avoid the garbage but it is harder to distinguish a mediocre book and a really good one without reading it.
Some garbage is published just to make money so you can take risks and find and publish really good books. Garbage is not the problem. The just so and so books are the problem.