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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I the genre I read it's normal to see authors self publish some books and place others with small independent publishers. In both cases the books will be edited, in the case of the self published books the author pays for editing. Even the authors I know who are editors in their day job use a paid editor for their own work.
I find the constant belief that self publishing, ie Indie, means poor unedited work most annoying. Even the print books produced by createspace are of high quality. Perhaps it's time the big publishers looked to the independants for a new business model.
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Good point. There are of course many non-BMW authors now who wisely avail themselves of these services. And I agree that the belief you refer to is is both annoying and inaccurate. "Indie" does of course encompass some really terrible writing. When anyone can publish a book so easily this is inevitable. I might add that at least one appallingly written "Indie" book (imho) which I won't name is a runaway best seller. But "Indie" also has a lot of fantastic writing. Personally I have been very pleasantly surprised by the quality, and could easily do without reading another BWM author if I had to. The only thing missing is a good means to sort the wheat from the chaff. But the "chaff" is not limited to "Indie". There is plenty of pretentious garbage and poorly written rubbish published by the BWM.