Quote:
Originally Posted by kennyc
It's really only a matter of looking at Amazon's top 100. There are both independent and BPH controlled titles.
|
No, kenny, looking at Amazon's top 100 is no guarantee that the indie book is a quality book. All it means is that it sold well. I could have sold well for a lot of reasons, for example, explicit sex scenes. The quality that Harry, I, and others look for are such things as correctly using
your and
you're, not having a sentence repeat itself 18 times, better dialogue than "D'uh", not writing
anecdote when you mean
antidote, etc. Being on Amazon's top 100 list does not address these quality issues.
Don't misunderstand. There are quality indie books available. I've come across a good number of them. But Harry is right when he says they are hard to find. For every quality book I have found, I have had to delete 25-30 of horrendous quality. When the price is free, I'm willing to do that; when the price is $3.99 or higher, I'm not.