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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I would love it if there was a good way to filter for the indie authors who are the midlist equivalents. Honestly, I would. I don't have a solution for that but it would be nice for folks.
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Have you tried looking a bit?
But seriously, some people in this thread make it seem as if great books just magically appeared in front of their eyeballs with the old system. When the truth is that they've always had an external "system" to help them choose books--whether it was best seller lists, displays at their favorite bookstore/library, recommendations from friends/bookclubs, reviews from newspapers/magazines (or just plain online research). A system they spent a lot of time and energy developing. A complex system that has become almost transparent and effortless to them.
So I GET that people might be loathe to alter or step away from that system (or develop a new one). I really do. But that in no way means that it's impossible to do so (with very successful, repeatable results). Or that such a new system could become just as effortless/transparent as the old one in time.
There's a difference between "I don't want to" and "it can't be done (and no one should want to)."
"It's all rubbish" is negated with the first indie book you find that isn't.