Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
NY will always take the book that will MAKE THE MOST MONEY. All else is trimmings and trappings. Any notion that they are protecting literary values is laughable. That's why Madonna can write children's books, why Brittany Spears is a bestseller, and why buffoons like James Frey and Abby Suderland get big book deals.
NY is generally good at professional editing, though, which is one of the primary differences between Big Six and indie. There's a middle ground of writers who do get freelance editing or qualified peer editing. Other "writers" just dump a file up there, in the era when with one button you can publish your blog. I appreciate it takes a little effort to wade through it, but most of us just don't walk into a bookstore and grab any old book just because it happened to be bound and printed.
The best thing about the new era is that readers get to do the choosing, not two dozen editors and a sales staff.
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