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Originally Posted by Josieb1
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.
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The "bias against it" is simply the time it takes to find the few gems amongst the overwhelming mass of complete crap. I like the job that publishers do as "gatekeepers". For my SF/Fantasy reading I mainly rely on the monthly book bundle released by Baen. I've been buying this every month for over 15 years, and experience has taught me that I can be sure of enjoying at least 90% of the books in those bundles. I know of no method of selecting, with zero effort on my part, self-published books which I'll be equally sure of enjoying, so I avoid them. It's not as if I'm short of books to read.