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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
It's fine to weed out self-published. The topic was centered around whether a writer should self-publish--so I think the difference is whether someone is saying, "all self-published books are that way because they aren't good enough" versus "I choose not to buy self-published."
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Exactly.
Most people have automatic filters in place that reflect their personal biases in reading and buying. Biases *for* and biases *against*. Both based on personal taste and experience.
Perfectly fine...
...as long as we don't pretend that our *personal* biases are a law of nature.
Bad things come of that. (Ask Grafton.)
Me, I'm biased in favor of Science Fiction. It appeals to my curiosity and my contrarian nature. I'm strongly biased *away* from lit-fic. That is a genre that has no appeal to me. I could make all sorts of snarky negative statements to denigrate the genre or try to justify my preferences to the world but it would really achieve nothing. And I have better ways to waste my free time between runs...
I choose to buy SF because it appeals to me, I choose *not* to buy some other genres because they don't. Doesn't mean others shouldn't try it.
(I'm not about to volunteer to get Grafton'ed.
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