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Originally Posted by Moejoe
See that's where I most have a problem. If there's so much money and time and expertise invested by the trad publishing industry and it's still producing crap then what is their purpose any longer? Why shouldn't I pick honest and raw crap over polished crap that the industry gives me? Have you seen the best seller lists from the last ten years? Its like a countdown in average IQ of the reader, and this isn't a knock on genre fiction, I happen to love genre fiction, but most of what is published by the majors is very weak.
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It's not the amount of time or money. It's the fact that those people know what they are doing, and amateurs as a rule do not. Nothing stopping them from learning, but they generally don't.
You're frustration with publishing companies churning out crap is perfectly valid... but it is no different than if I were to express similar sentiments about indie authors churning out unprofessional crap.
Both groups could do far better very easily... but they don't, and they probably won't in the foreseeable future.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
In the unpubs I still might find something daring or challenging, or just plain honest and raw enough to stand out.
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Personally, I think the unpubs just have a despairingly worse ratio of quality to crap. And if you were to assess the number of established authors from whom you have read books in your life, I'm sure you'll agree there's no competition.
It is not to the publisher's merit that they publish crap. But it is to their merit that they publish good books that may well have been crap when the author first finished writing them.
- Ahi