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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Personally, I see an enormous problem with self-published authors.
In the past, one could expect some kind of minimum quality - given the fact that the author found a publisher, had an editor and such.
Now, more and more often (I buy about 100 eBooks per year) I find myself struggling: The book description may sound interesting. But I've never heard of the author. Can I expect the same quality levels as 5 years ago? Or is the author an amateur and never would have made the publisher-hurdle?
I easily can see, how this flood of amateur authors could harm sales of professional writers...
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I don't buy many indy books. The few I did buy because they sounded interesting were unreadable for various reasons.
I now go strictly by recommendation from trusted source. I can recommend Abigail Padgett's mysteries, but then... I have a special interest that marches with hers. She's indy, and inexpensive, and on the whole very good... but I think that, with a good editor, she could be better. Stylistically, there were a few clunkers that really pulled me out of the book that a good editor would have spotted.
I've heard the bit that indy authors are taking readers away from "real" authors, but I'm not sure I believe it. What is happening is that people are finding quality in more places than just the Big 6.