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Originally Posted by darryl
I disagree. Traditional publishers offered only the most exploitative terms at a time when there was no realistic alternative. Even now, they won't offer competitive royalties on ebooks. And, of course, earlier in this thread it was reported that Piers Anthony has ran into problems with his publisher insisting on taking the copyright for its whole term. When Piers writes future books I wonder whether he will offer it to these particular publishers? And if not, have those publishers missed it. It is certainly arguable that when Publishers behave like this in an environment where self-publishing is not only viable but often preferable, they must take responsibility when they miss out because authors choose not to submit manuscripts to them.
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And you will not find really good books if they have been "filtered" out altogether, as many of them have been under traditional publishing.
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If they can be considered to be filtered out they must have engaged with traditional publishing.
So, no example given as I suspected was the case.