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Originally Posted by outlander78
I bought an indie book. The editing was non-existent, and the formatting terrible. I will not buy another until I figure out a way to find the excellent ones.
I generally find books by word of mouth and Amazon's fictfact.com's suggestions; indie or not has no impact - the one I bought, I deliberately sought out, but the tools to verify the quality of the book were not there. (The one I bought had a single review, likely faked by the author himself.)
If I could find a site (Amazon or similar) with numerous reviews, then I would jump in with both feet. For now, though, smashwords and kobo leave a great deal to be desired for indies.
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I sample all indie books I read. If there's something wrong in the first paragraph, it's not a promising sign. Not sure if you read the previous page of this thread, but there's indie book bloggers to help verify the quality of the book:
http://www.simon-royle.com/indie-reviewers/ You can just type the name of the book and the author on google, and if you find a book blog that actively reviews a variety of books (i.e., not the same author's books) and also points out areas for improvement (not just: I can't wait for the sequel!), then they're more likely to be trustworthy.
I also find that reviews on
www.goodreads.com are generally more informative than the ones on Amazon. There's not gonna be reviews for all indie books, but people on Goodreads generally are more honest about their reviews, because the website attracts prolific readers who like to share their opinions.