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Originally Posted by Phogg
This is a function performed far better by a forum of readers than by a paid hack.
Just as with music, and News stories - story writers now have to compete with people who write because the wish to, and who will write for free.
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I think most people want to be able to afford to eat.
I can be a bit of a book snob at times (but I've also been a fanfic reader, so it balances out!), but with a few rare exceptions, most people who write because they wish to and for free are awful at it. This isn't counting people who give away promotional copies, of course.
My disclaimer - I did an internship in publishing when I was in college. I opted not to pursue publishing as a field - and that's because you couldn't pay me enough to sit down and keep reading those slush pile manuscripts. Cutting out publishers reduces my whole future reading world to that nightmare!