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Originally Posted by fjtorres
What the BPHs are is increasingly less valuable to authors (even the gold-plated gang) and open minded readers.
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Don't know about all this strawman business, but this quoted comment is a bit insulting to readers. Just because I still prefer to read books that are published by publishers, doesn't mean I am not open minded. Not sure what that is even suppose to mean. Open minded about what, not knowing if an author bothered to get an editor? Not knowing if after I get to 20 % of the read it all falls apart, you know, only editing the sample part?
Not knowing if the author didn't even know the genre they were writing in so they stick it in the best selling one (romance) even if its not?
Those have been my experiences overall. Do I read self published books? Yes I do. If they have been vetted by readers I know and trust. Are there some great self published books? Sure, but overall there is also a lot more crap.
So yes, I value publishers. And I read only ebooks by the way so all this talk about publishers only dealing with paper products doesn't apply to me. I have been reading ebooks since 2008 and the majority were with publishers. There really weren't that many SP books around in the beginning.
And bringing up Snookie every time this SP versus evil publisher stuff is brought up is really getting tiring. For every one Snookie book published by publishers, there are 1000's and 1000's "Snookie" books self published.
I don't get that need to constantly try to paint publishers as this evil thing while artificially lifting up self publishers. There is a place for everyone. I just want to read good books and making judgments on readers about how supposedly they are only open minded if they read only magical SP books is really silly.
Its often the thing that makes SP's look more and more silly to me when they are so busy bashing on the publishers, instead of just being happy doing what they want to do. One one hand they don't want nothing to do with them, on the other its often all they talk about.
Me, I am just a reader and I want to have the best chance to have good to great reads every time I sit down with my kindle. And my vetting system so far has not let me down.