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Originally Posted by tompe
No, since they were picked up so they were not missed. The claim was that there was a lot of really good books that was missed by traditional publishing.
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Really? Those two examples are a triumph of the traditional publishing model? I presume even self-published books which are later "picked up", of which there are a number of well-known examples, including Hugh Howey's acclaimed Wool, were not "missed" by traditional publishing in your eyes.
The fact is that any good self-published book which has not been traditionally published can be regarded as having been missed, either because they were submitted and rejected or because the authors chose not to even bother to submit them. Also, of course, any good books which were self-published and later picked-up by a traditional publisher. And there is a final category we will never know about. Those good books rejected where the author simply gave up, together with the other great books that rejected author never then wrote.
Of course, if you wish to maintain that there are no good self-published books?