By Dave Lee, BBC
John Locke was the first self-published author to sell one over a million copies on Amazon – making him a New York Times bestseller. “Company policy, not mine. Were it up to me, we would. The revolution is not yet complete.” A change in policy at the 164-year-old Chicago Tribune is not something to be taken lightly. But when Julia Keller, the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic, calls something a “revolution”, you sense things may be about to change. She’s referring to her newspaper’s policy on reviewing self-published books. It’s a simple one: they don’t. And until recently, it would be unthinkable to even consider over-ruling it as an obvious method of quality control.
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