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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Look around and you'll find a lot of equally bad books from the BPHs.
It's called Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap."
No reason why indie books should be better or worse than the BPH-vetted one. Cause for every deluded wanna-be Hemingway self-published junker (that's the stereotype, right?) out there there is an equally-bad 3-chapter bait and switch rush job (the other stereotype) out there.
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I fully agree. I happen to know which mainstream press authors I really like and buy those books. Then I buy books recommended by friends and family and on awards lists. It is rare that I just decide to try a random new author. I guess my indy experience has been more in the later try a new random author and it has not been the best experience.
I did not worry about getting Jim Butcher's Changes when it was released because I am getting bored with Harry Dresden but I would have been pissed if First Lord's Fury had been delayed. I might have had to learn how to strip DRM and convert a file....