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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I haven't read a mediocre book for a long time. All I can think of is people are just picking books at random without even looking at the cover, blurb or sample. Whoever the publisher is you're likely to be disappointed if that's how you choose what to read.
Self-publishing brought back all the type of books the corporations lost interest in decades ago. I don't see how that can be anything but good.
Also, self-publishers fix their mistakes when they are pointed out to them (with one famous exception, anyway). Corporation publishers never do that.
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I meant that the filtering process with finding a really good books which includes checking reviews, checking award nominations and listening to friends filter out a lot of books including the ones that sampling would filter out. People proposing here that sampling is useful must end up reading mediocre books mostly.
I really hope that mistakes are fixed by making a new edition. I would really hate it if I cannot know which edition I have read or if friends I discus books with have read the same edition or not.
The bad thing with self publishing is that it seems to bypass the process were an author develops and gets better.