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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
As this question sort of got passed up, I'd like to bring it up again: Is there some part of "impartial third-party post-filtering, instead of publisher pre-filtering" that does not make sense?
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I think this is rather what already happens at Smashwords and the like. The stuff that is genuinely decent gets good reviews and gains respect.
I'd venture that the model right now isn't broken. You're proposing that publishers publish, well, just about anything, then let someone else wade through it. The current model allows publishers to continue to try to find the 'best' works and release them. Self-published ebooks (possibly with the help of freelance grammar nazis) then more-or-less follow your route, but backwards; instead of going through a publisher first, it first goes through the 'third-party filtering' system, then if it's good enough can be picked up by a publisher.
I could be wrong here, but isn't that what happened to Boyd Morrison?