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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh, I agree, but on the other hand the comment that most indie books are crap is a perfectly valid one to make. They are.
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I spend more time than I should on Amazon's KDP "Ask the Community" forum. Five years ago this was a place where a few intelligent early adopters helped other early adopters build e-books for the Kindle. Over the years, but especially since Kindle Select enabled would-be writers to give away their books, the forum has degenerated into a truly awful platform for the wannabes. They not only can't format (the purpose of the forum); they can't spell, punctuate, or write a coherent paragraph.
This morning, one of our author-publishers wanted to know whether "text" or "texted" was the correct past tense of the verb "to text." And she at least knew there was a past tense!
In that time, the backlist on Amazon has exploded from 400,000 Kindle titles to two million. I'll bet that a million of them are self-published, are unreadable, and haven't sold more than ten copies.
What would you say to this one, for example?:
http://www.amazon.com/DEPTHS-HELL-BL...th%27s+of+hell
It ranks 269,000 out of two million, suggest that it is well into the top half of the pile.