[DiapDealer]

I once found myself reading an (indie|self|vanity|whatever)-published book that I didn't think was very good at all. Of course, I immediately blamed its failure-to-engage on its less-than-traditional pedigree. But then I asked myself if I'd ever read a traditionally-published book that I thought was even worse. It was pretty easy to answer, "yes, several times in fact."

It was at that point that I realized trad-pub vs indie wasn't as relevant to "quality" as I initially thought--or was indoctrinated to think--it was. The quality of millions of bad books that are never going to make it through my filters (the same filters that I've had in place for decades), let alone get read by me, is totally irrelevant. So I've learned to be rather publisher-agnostic about the books that make it through my existing TBR filters. Hasn't hurt me a bit. *shrugs*