The critical comments are relayed to the authors so they can try to make the needed additions, deletions, and other changes; after consideration of the revised manuscript, a final decision about publishability then is made and reported to the authors. (dr-monsrs.net)
The culture of writing and, most acutely, publishing is mutating in the petri dish of instant publishability. (winningedits.com)
In other words, the hard truth of the slush pile --- that most manuscripts in it don't even approach publishability --- is also the hard truth of self - published books. (accrispin.blogspot.ru)