Thread: So what is a fair price for your work?
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Old 06-05-2012, 09:59 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo View Post
Sorry, but how did people manage before ebooks came along? There has always been good quality writing and there has always been dross. Most of the people I know (and I'm not saying this is the same for the whole world) buy books because a friend or family member has recommended it.
It was (and remains) an important role of the publisher to filter out the crap. If I buy an SF/Fantasy book from Baen, I can be pretty certain that it will be reasonably well-written and edited, and that I'll enjoy it. I just don't have the time to spend going through the 10,000 free or low-cost self-published SF/Fantasy books at Amazon attempting to find the 0.1% of gems amongst the garbage.

That's why I continue to buy books from publishers. Quality for me is enormously more important than price, and professional publishers continue to be reasonable "gatekeepers" of quality writing.
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