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Originally Posted by Moejoe
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Again, I don't understand why you are so reliant on the opinions of the publishers (whose bottom line is money making, lets not forget. They no more care about fiction than McDonalds do about gourmet cooking). Can't you make those decisions for yourself? Do you need someone else to assign value to a cultural product before you feel safe enough to try it for yourself?
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I have not said that publishers are the only possible gatekeepers. Word of mouth and recommendation inf forums and other groups can also work. And I do not have time to sample as many books that can be filtered by a set of gatekeepers. So by sampling myself only I will miss a lot of good books.