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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Yes and no. It puts some books where the readers can find them, but at the cost of condemning other books to unpublished obscurity or the shame of the vanity press.
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That's why I called it far from perfect, there are lots of good books that slip through the cracks; often while books many of us would consider less good get through and onto shelves.
Still, and this is despite all its faults, the commercial industry does a better job of putting the books that get into its system where readers can see them than any of the alternatives.
I'm not saying it's great: but when it comes to making readers aware of books and authors, the alternatives are worse.