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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
(Ooh! Yuh got me!) 
Maybe not, but marketing and advertising will put an "OK" book ghost-written for Dr. Phil on the NYT bestseller list. |
And, unfortunately, will still not make an "OK" book a "great" book.
But you do bring up a good point: Just because a book is on the NYT best seller list doesn't mean that I'm going to like it. Just because a publisher thinks it good doesn't mean that the book is good.
This is both a benefit and a curse with eBooks. Anyone can publish a good book that the publishers think is bad (I'll point out Scott Siegler's Earthcore as an example) - but on the other hand, anyone can publish a bad book.