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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
That's fine, as long as you are happy to limit your reading to whatever corporations think they can make money from. One good thing self publishing did was bring back genres the corporations lost interest in decades ago. I've always found it easy enough to sift the good ones from the not-so-good ones, just as I always did when they were published by corporations instead.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yup. Same here. Word of mouth/reviews brings it to my attention, a quick sample check for competence, and bam ... away we go. Much the same way I found new authors/books to enjoy in the bookstore/library.
I don't really care HOW a book/author comes to my attention ... only that they have a fighting chance TO come to my attention. Without the arbitrary, artificial interference of personal opinions based on trends and other non-(book|writing|talent|story-telling)-related criteria.
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Excellent points from both of you.
I applaud the author for taking her career into her own hands to get her work out on HER schedule and on her own terms and for keeping ownership of HER work which is where it belongs.
Some of you insist on making the assumption that all books published by the BPH are gold and nothing is wrong with them. Nothing could be further from the truth. And then to make matters worse, the authors work is held hostage for years to come with nothing on either side to show for it except that it cannot be sold/published anywhere else just to keep the author under their thumb.
This author has already won simply because her book is already published, she has made money, her name is now known to thousands of people etc simply because of what she posted which has spread to this site and others all over the web.
I'm sure some of us will go check out her book or even if it isn't something that we are interested in we may know others who are and pass the message of her book along for others to check out.
Times have changed, and those who refuse to do so, including publishers will be left behind as they should be.
I wish this author and others like her all the best in their effort to get their work out to people who are interested in reading it without judgement from either publishers or readers.