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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It's never been better for publishers either. The next time they want to find some new writer to exploit they won't need to look through thousands of manuscripts to find them. Jut go to Smashwords or wherever and look through the ones with the highest ratings, all the readers have done most of your job for you.
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Um, no, not really. This is something of a miconception fuelled by a couple of very, very rare examples.
I'm afraid most of the material that's self-published is automatically regarded as crap by agents and publishers. Fair? probably not. More or less accurate? Probably so. They don't need to go searching for books, enough are sent to them in the first place. Reviews from others pretty much count for nothing. Agents and publishers rely on their own opnions of what work they see that's submitted to them. The idea that a self publisher can increase their chances of publication through amazon, smashwords et al. is more or less a fallacy.