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Originally Posted by Moejoe
See, that's my beef with the whole industry. Who gets to decide what is trash and what is treasure? What are their qualifications to do this, are they all marketing gurus, are they all ex-writers, or are a lot of them in the positions because of cronyism and nepotism? Why are they the ones deciding instead of the public at large? They are gatekeepers, another level between the writer and the reader that is rapidly becoming pointless.
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Yep. In the current system the gatekeeper is the one that makes all of the money, and you can bet that they'll fight very hard to keep that gate exactly where it is. In the long term, getting rid of them would be better for people on both sides of the gate (consumers and authors), but they're not going to go away easily.