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Originally Posted by tompe
Your claim was:
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.
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To be fair, it's probably near impossible to find a novel which was submitted and rejected as the information isn't available - Much better sales pitch to say you have decided to self-publish for any reason other than "no one liked it"
So the next best is the novels we know about that were submitted many times before finally being accepted, the most famous I can think of from the top of my head would be Dune & Harry Potter, I suspect people can add quite a lot to the list.
I'm sure traditional publishing has turned down many novels over the years, I'm equally sure that my life is completely unchanged because of it.
My main take from this discussion is that a number of people want a flag for self-pub/trad-pub so they can avoid it. Sure, some people want to avoid self-pub, some want to avoid trad-pub and others couldn't care less.
Just for info, I pretty much only read trad-pub, partly for reasons upstream but mostly because SF Gateway have re-released so much backlist SF that I want to read that by the time I catch up (if ever) this should all have become a non-issue.