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sum1lost said:
That might be what they are supposed to do, but they don't always do that well.
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They're not perfect, no, but overall they tend to do their job competently.
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Not only that, but publishers are not always the best judges of who is and who isn't good.
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Of course not. They're just much, much better than the authors themselves are.
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A number of perfectly comptent (in a few cases now famous) authors have had a great deal of trouble getting some of their works published.
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I don't consider that a disadvantage of publishing, quite the contrary.