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September 9, 2007
No Thanks, Mr. Orwell
Lots of good stuff in the collected correspondence (including rejection notices) from publisher Alfred Knopf. (Although, why can't it be online and indexed?). Here's one:[A Knopf reviewer] passed on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” explaining it was “impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A.”
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One day, new writers are going to shun publishers as a whole, make sure that their manuscripts are well edited by a third-party, do some market research of their own and self-publish. Then, they convince a small investor to sponsor the marketing of their book. When a steady stream of good self-published works emerge, rejection letters will go the way of the dinosaur.