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Originally Posted by ahi
... but you need only look at the most random assortment of self-published authors to see how amateur efforts well more than 9 times out of 10 result in despairingly amateurish results.
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I think this is exactly right, but needs one more detail: Amateur results often result in very low to free price because once recognized as amateur, consumers will not pay to read the material. When amateur results become the norm or predominant accepted quality, prices will be depressed for everyone, including the professional results, because consumers will not be willing to pay an author at the higher price. We are seeing this phenomenon at work, albeit in a different context, in the $9.99 price threshold for bestsellers and in the discussions we have here on MR regarding what is an acceptable price for an ebook.
Remember that knowing how to use a word processing program and its spellchecker does not turn junk into art.