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Originally Posted by neilmarr
After forty-odd years as a professional writer and editor, I can assure you that NOTHING should go to print without serious, pro editorial intervention. Only crass amateurs believe otherwise -- and the result is the deluge of arrogantly self-published nonsense that now confronts someone browsing for a book.
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And publishers. Editors are being laid off all over and this has been a general trend as the industry has consolidated and cost cutting (with insane expections of profit margins) has been enforced. Those who remain are being given less and less time to edit books. I don't think this is a good thing, but the arguments for conventional publishers are weakened by this trend.