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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
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.
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It could just be the genres that I am interested in, but I know of a lot of ex-self publishers and bloggers who have gained book deals as a direct result of that. If the mainstream publishers are still relying on writers sending off manuscripts with their fingers crossed someone might read it, then that is very short sighted of them.