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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I consider it very much worth putting up with that content in order to get access to the good stuff. (Well, where "putting up with" means "clicking past it on Smashwords;" I try to avoid reading it.) I don't try to convince anyone that "most" self-pub ebooks are worth reading.
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Don't think many people are saying that; most of us think there is nothing inherently superior to the gatekept books from the point of view of readers: there is crap on both side, there are jewels on both sides.
As the saying goes, "One person's trash is another's treasure." One person's "literary masterpiece" is another's boring pretentious trash or empty cliched junk. Again: tastes vary. There is room for everybody.
Where things get dicey is when people (with clear axes to grind) try to overgeneralize from some (indie/trad-pub) books are crap/good to *all* such are crap/good. That kind of overstatement is simple meaningless noise.
I may think the Snookie book is a waste of dead tree pulp but a lot of somebodies out there were quite willing to drop a good chunk of change on that "waste". I might chuckle at that but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
Live and let die, guys.
Nobody is going to change their minds here.
But keep those recommendations coming; I'm taking notes.
