I haven't seen publishers commenting on this, but what you say fits the comments I've seen from many writers, most of them wannabees (well, of course most writers ARE wannabees).
One lady, who teaches writing in some sort of community college sort of project in UK, was being coaxed by beta-readers to web her rejected novel. She refused, saying that if no professional wanted to publish it, it must be so bad as to be embarrassing. She had some structured sort of personal requirement of wanting at least some compliments from some agents or publishers before she would consider the book non-embarrassing. As though some sort of imprimature from some super race were required.
A US lady who had one or two books published (loved by a small audience) seemed to feel the same way about her work: it didn't sell well, so it must not be any good.
Others attacked the idea of self-publishing because 'they can call themselves authors'. Apparently this would destroy some standard (of approval by 'professionals') which the wannabees hope to reach someday.
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I haven't seen publishers commenting on this, but what you say fits the comments I've seen from many writers, most of them wannabees (well, of course most writers ARE wannabees).
One lady, who teaches writing in some sort of community college sort of project in UK, was being coaxed by beta-readers to web her rejected novel. She refused, saying that if no professional wanted to publish it, it must be so bad as to be embarrassing. She had some structured sort of personal requirement of wanting at least some compliments from some agents or publishers before she would consider the book non-embarrassing. As though some sort of imprimature from some super race were required.
A US lady who had one or two books published (loved by a small audience) seemed to feel the same way about her work: it didn't sell well, so it must not be any good.
Others attacked the idea of self-publishing because 'they can call themselves authors'. Apparently this would destroy some standard (of approval by 'professionals') which the wannabees hope to reach someday.