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Old 06-22-2012, 10:41 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
This is why the example is so appropriate to the comparison to independent authors. At its heart, it makes absolutely no sense.
Surely the comparison would be to some guy down the road who made the car himself?
There are established 'foreign' car brands like BMW and Mercedes, that no one would sensibly describe as rubbish. There is no similar 'vetted' group of independent writers, the good ones are lumped in with those who can barely string a sentence together, some of whom are rubbish.
It is not reasonable to believe that there are no independently published eBooks of equal quality to those you would find in a bookstore. It is reasonable to believe that if you took the average quality of all independently published eBooks available on Smashwords and Amazon, it would be lower than the average quality of books you would find in a B&M store.
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