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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
That's a bias. That's a form of gatekeeping. If it's correct (and I presume it is, based on the experience of the poster).
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It's a form of gatekeeping for how things are sold and marketed in Amazon's store I suppose (although maybe not the best term for it), but in books/publishing (which I think is how many posters are thinking about the term) gatekeeping is generally a term for a mechanism for deciding what gets published. In other words if you can't get an acquisitions editor to buy your book and publish it you didn't get past the gate keeper. With self-publishing there is no gatekeeping in that sense. Amazon, and other stores, will let anything that falls within their very broad guidelines be published whether it meets some minimal standards of what can be called decent writing or not.