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Originally Posted by HarryT
One of the most valuable services that publishers offer is to act as a crap filter. If I buy a book from, say, Baen, I can be pretty confident that it will be properly edited, written to a good standard, and that I will enjoy it. With independently published books, the overwhelming majority are - well - crap. I really don't want to have to spend the time finding the tiny number of gems among the garbage. I'd prefer to let a publisher do that for me.
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WORD. I'm even losing patience with the bargains and freebies . Maybe I'm getting too old, but I find that the biggest constraint on my reading is not money, but time. I'd rather just pay the going the rate for a good read-a book I know I will enjoy- than just wading through the gigantic indie slush pile in search of the next great indie writer. The publishers do miss a few, but not that many, really.