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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, two things I've done is I'm buying a lot of backlist from familiar authors (if the price is acceptable) and keeping an eye out for indie titles in previously underserved genres like superhero novels. A lot of good stuff that used to get filtered out for being unconventional or cross-genre is now hitting the market. I'm also picking up more euro-translations (mostly from german) now that Amazon has become the top source of translated fiction in the US.
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Similar for me. Foreign translations from the Scandinavian countries in particular have been a treasure trove.
I've also been reading a lot of backlist from
unfamiliar authors, since my reading before digital was whatever secondhand paperbacks I could find cheap (under a buck) and that meant I'd mostly been limited to current bestsellers. There are plenty of great authors that were published decades earlier and weren't available to me, plus lots of books that never sold widely thus weren't plentiful in the secondhand market. Many of these authors have reclaimed their rights and are self-publishing now.
As for newly written indie (or small pub) books, there are good discussions here in the bargain and recommended reading forums and I find at least a couple of new reads a month that way.