I've never been all that enamored of the idea of traditional publishers playing the gatekeeping role of Basic Competence Police.
Maybe some were comforted by the notion of being able to blindly reach into a bag of hundreds of thousands of random new(ish) books and pull out a competently written one, but color me unimpressed. A) I very rarely select books to read randomly, and B) I don't ever recall being comforted by the fact that a book I chose at random—and didn't like—met a basic level of competence.
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"I hated that sucker, but MY GOD, the level of competence was just amazing! You should definitely check out it next time you're you're looking for a competently written, but otherwise utterly dreadful book. You won't be disappointed."
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