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kleinbl00 · 3428 days ago · link · · parent · post: What If Authors Were Paid Every Time Someone Turned a Page? Amazon is about to find out.
Bieber didn't really make it big until he got picked up. There's always this discussion of "gatekeepers" as if their job is to keep you out. It isn't. Their job is to find the stuff they think is valuable and then exploit it for a percentage. An agent who gets ten great books out of ten submissions is going to push all ten towards publication so that she can get ten points off of all ten. Unfortunately agents generally get zero out of ten so they have to say "sorry, no thanks, best of luck" as politely as they can. Trust me - the publishing industry has the nicest "gatekeepers" I've met.