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DMatusik · 12th November 2007, 11:43 PM

I often see the extremes of this argument represented, but nothing in the middle. On one side, you have absolute rubbish that's self published while on the other you have perfection on a traditionally-printed page.

I have read several professionally-produced books that were awful; typos, grammatical errors - not even factoring in content, for the moment. I have also seen self-published fiction and non-fiction that was outstanding and not a single detail was missed.

Yes, self-publishing can lower the bar but the converse of that statement isn't necessarily true. Authors are up against time, quotas, editors' moods and all sorts of intangibles which can cause a perfectly good story to get rejected.

12th November 2007, 11:43 PM	#20 (permalink)
DMatusik Trytium Publishing Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 42	Re: A question for those who are self-published I often see the extremes of this argument represented, but nothing in the middle. On one side, you have absolute rubbish that's self published while on the other you have perfection on a traditionally-printed page. I have read several professionally-produced books that were awful; typos, grammatical errors - not even factoring in content, for the moment. I have also seen self-published fiction and non-fiction that was outstanding and not a single detail was missed. Yes, self-publishing can lower the bar but the converse of that statement isn't necessarily true. Authors are up against time, quotas, editors' moods and all sorts of intangibles which can cause a perfectly good story to get rejected.