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While I've bought an indie or two, it's been non-fiction, in a very specific niche. I won't buy indie fiction.
My primary explanation is that there's simply too much really good stuff already published that I haven't read. Even reading a couple of books a week for the next 30 years (should I live that long), I won't get through everything I want to read. Plus, every week when I read the NYT Review of Books, I seem to add a book. Then there's the time spent going back and re-reading old friends...
That's the positive reason. The negative reason is that, in the course of earning a writing degree long ago, I developed a really low tolerance for badly constructed fiction, because I workshopped a *lot* of it. Throw in the spelling, word usage, and editing errors common to work that's never passed by semi-objective set of eyes prior to being unleashed upon the world...nope, not interested. First-rate writing is really tough work, even with a good writer, a talented editor, and an eagle-eyed proofreader.
Sorry if all that seems harsh or elitist. But I'm just not willing to spend valuable reading time to try to find the one indie author in a hundred who might be as good as the authors I've already got in my "To Be Read" collection.
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