Somone above was complaining about "the gatekeepers" and their taste in what to publish.
The great thing about "the gatekeepers" (a.k.a. publishers in the case of books and eBooks) is that there are so many of them, with so many different editorial policies and foci. You certainly expect a different product from a Harlequin "Sillhouette" romance (likely to verge on soft porn) than you do from Baen (probably either mil-SF/ mil-Fantasy, or hard-SF, or re-release "good old stuff"-SF/Fantasy), than from Tor (a broader slice of SF and Fantasy. And yet something else from a small NY publisher that does modern lit-ra-choor. And still something else from O'Rielly. And so on and so forth, ad nauseum.
If the stuff you like isn't available from a publisher that you are aware of, either look harder or start your own! You may have spotted an unserved or under-served market.
Xenophon
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