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Originally Posted by tompe
Please read more carefully what I write. And agent might read 3 pages and decide that the prose is publishable but that does not mean that the book will be published in the version that is submitted to the editor.
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Exactly, and it's usually not even the editor that does this, it some contract slush-pile reader who then passed it up the chain where it may or may not be rejected. One it reaches high enough in the foot chain an editor pitches it at a management/publication and it may or may not get past that, it if does, then there is still marketing/profit discussions that might or might not pass muster. If in the end everything looks good the company as a whole will move forward with publishing it -- which may or may not involve extensive editing and rewriting.
To publish on the internet requires none of that. No reviews, no decisions, no editing, just a self-proclaimed writer and a website to upload his masterpiece.
