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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I don't believe we're going down this path again:
If you take 100, 1,000, or any other number of randomly selected indie books and compare them to the same number of randomly selected mainstream commercially published books, you will find that the commercially published books have fewer typos and grammatical errors. The writing will be better on a technical level because someone who knows what they are doing and does not know what the author meant to say, but only what they said has gone through and fixed errors.
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That may be true, but I don't read books at random. I let other people be the guinea pigs first. That eliminates a lot of the chaff. Word of mouth means more to me than does accepted by a gatekeeper. I don't read a huge number of self-published books, but I don't avoid them. If others wish to, that's fine, they can have whatever criteria they wish.