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Originally Posted by Charbax
Publishers only care about profit. They turn good books into commercial crap. They need to completely disappear, be exterminated.
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On the contrary, publishers do exactly the opposite - they turn the "crap" that authors generally write into a commercially publishable book. Very few authors are capable of writing good, grammatically-correct English; it's the copy editor (who works for the publisher) who does that absolutely vital job.
You have only to look at the standard of written English on this board to realise how few people are capable of writing the language correctly - even the basic stuff like putting apostrophes in the right place.
Publishers have an absolutely vital role in the business; I would respectfully suggest to you that you've probably never written a book if you are unaware of just how much work a publisher does, and how vital they are in the book industry.