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Originally Posted by HarryT
Which is bad news for the reader, because it means that they get swamped by all the crap rather than it being filtered out by the publishers. Undoubtedly there's the rare self-published gem out there; the problem is finding it in the sea of garbage. That's why I prefer to buy from traditional publishers.
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I hear this being repeated quite often, that it is harder to find "good books" from self-published authors than from traditional. But I've been going to the library for 40 years and have filled bags with recommended reads I've had trouble getting into.
The ratio of books I download from Smashwords vs that which I actually consider a keeper is really no different, I am starting to find.