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Even without self-publishing. I would believe that ebooks are going to generate many more niche publishers and the landscape will change more often. It's always been the issue even when it was just big publishers. Whose editing and selections am I going to trust as a reader? While the author of the article has their own agenda, my question remains the same. How do I find the next book that I am going to enjoy? Only the individual reader can answer what they enjoy, whether that be poor-grammar-good-storyline or okay-storyline-with-good-grammar. There's a scale there and the scales intersect for me. Where that intersection is will probably change for me over time. As time goes on I will have more and more options for books; something in the range of 200,000 books published in the United States alone last year. How can I possibly make sense of that landscape and find a great read?
Articles like this one do nothing to help the reader. Yes, there is crap out there. We know that. Big publishing houses have published some of that crap because there are two types of books out there: books I like; and books that are crap.
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