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Originally Posted by HarryT
You shouldn't underestimate the value of that, though. It sounds as if you're doing everything in a thoroughly professional manner, but there are an awful lot of readers out there - myself included - who don't buy self-published books simply because the overwhelming majority of them are unmitigated crap. I buy my fantasy from publishers like Baen or Tor because I trust them to only publish decent books.
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Maybe I'm lucky in the romance genre I read but I don't get the bias against self published books. I read authors that are published with (for example) Samhain and Dreamspinner that still self publish along side that. They pay for editing, proof readers and decent covers. The self published books are as good as the published ones, and some of the best I've read have been self published.
Yes there is crap out there, I can usually tell by the cover tbh, and the preview I can get from Amazon. But I'd never refuse to buy self published books. For some authors self publishing is a way to pay the bills and allows them to continue to write while they wait for the publisher books to release. I've even bought paperbacks from self published authors as well.