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Originally Posted by moonshot
....both are extracting money from the end user for an inferior product.  |
Apart from the fact that not all people have the same definition of inferior; you appear to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the business model of vanity publishers.
Put simply, the vanity model extracts money from the creator, not the end user. Self publishers produce books, which they then sell (or attempt to sell) to readers. Vanity publishers take money from author to publish a book, then sell copies back to the author. The end user, or reader, is not part of this picture at all.
Getting back to quality, while many self-published works do have more errors than they would had they gone through a commercial publisher, this is not true of all such books. Some are as good as anything else you can buy.