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How should we find a not published book, that has won prizes? How do we know, which books would have been great, if we don't know of them, because... They were not published? What thompe askes for is in itself not answerable, especially if every book that is trad pubed after it was self published counts for the trads too. I think Harry Potter is a great example, because it was eventually picked up by a publisher outside of the expertise for the genre. All publishers specialized in children books rejected it. That should be the publishers recognizing that kind of book. And why? Not because the book was bad, but because it was to long.
Likewise in germany. Harry Potter was here published by a comic book publisher, who could only print hardcovers. He later used the Harry Potter money to build paperback facilities. And the Lord of the Rings was published in germany by a publisher who specialized in non fiction, school books and maps (who now has a small imprint for high quality fantasy).
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