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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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Examples? I'm more than happy to be proved wrong! To my knowledge I can't think of more than one or two authors at most who have gone on to get contracts with agents and had their books published with successful sales - though you might know something I don't.
From the enormous slush piles on publishers and agents desks, I don't think they have to worry about going looking for new authors
too much, they can still rely on submissions coming in for quite some time to come, I think.