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Originally Posted by random50
The market will let us know whether "serious, pro editorial intervention" is really so important.
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No, the market won't unless book consumers start demanding refunds. In the United States alone nearly 100,000 books were published last year. Very few of those books became well-recognized bestsellers; very few were reviewed by any reputable, mainstream reviewer such as the
New York Times Book Review or the
New York Review of Books. And very few sold in any reasonable quantity. Yet in 2010 another 100,000 books will be published. So what message does the market generate?