I don't see the quantity of books making a big difference. There were too many books to wade through 20 years ago, if you were to even think of trying. According to Google there were almost 130 million in 2010. , not totally accurate they admit, but close enough. If one assumes that even half are Indie, which is doubtful in 2010, still leaves 65 million books to wade through.
Narrowing it down to your preferred type of book, might bring the number down to under a million, but probably not.
So how do we deal with this.
I am old, and have been reading 100-300 books a year for more than 50 years, I have read more than 100 already this year. I have a list of 544 authors that I like, 236 that I really really like, and a list of 76 that I think I will like compiled by recommendations on MR, literature map and various blogs.
AFAIK, and this is not by intent, all authors on my lists are traditionally published, and some have no ebooks published.
The blogs I look at are often from MR postings, things like best Fantasy books ever, Mystery threads etc. and the books reviewed, recommended are all traditionally published.
If bloggers and Amazon reviewers are to be the new gatekeepers, then there has to be a fair mix on their sites.
I am not going to look for Indie books specifically, but if a good review site had Indie books recommended I would be as likely to read those as traditionally published. I don't read everything recommended by a site, but if the reviewers taste seems to coincide with mine, I will strongly consider most that I haven't read already, Indie or not.
So tell me some good balanced sites that review both Indie and traditionally published that you have found treasures on. Indie books that excited and thrilled you, not just ok to read stuff, really good books.
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Helen
Helen