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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Actually, I'm not assuming that the majority of slushpile books are good... merely that more than .000001% of them are good, and that the present system isn't rescuing enough of them for consumers.
I realize publishers only want to print those books they think they can profit from. However, they are publishing so few, only those with the absolute highest chance of a good return, that other books that might make a passable return are not even being considered... in other words, publishers pick the sure things, but a lot of potential also-rans are being lost.
This model is simply designed to rescue some of the also-rans. Yes, it will also result in some bad stuff being released, too... but the third-party post-filtering services should be enough to keep most of those at bay.
And it's not as if all of the bad stuff will be released by this model... there will be plenty of potential authors who won't go through that extra work, just as they don't now, and their works will still sit. (Along with some good works too, unfortunately, though I guess it's hard to get up sympathy for a great book you've never seen.)
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Smashwords. LuLu. Amazon's Createspace and DTP. Manywords. All of these are avenues to get books published that currently are languishing on the slush-heaps of major publishers.
Hell, if one has the financial wherewithal to pay an editor and then BooksJustBooks printing fees, one can release through Amazon with HC, TPB, MMPB *and* ebook format! (Granted, this requires a tad more up-front money than going the CreateSpace/DTP route... And one has to figure out where to *STORE* all the copies.
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Derek