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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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It would really help if you stopped assuming that anyone who disagrees with publishers and supports indies must be a person content with any level of self-published dreck. (Because apparently that is all self-publishing is, is vanity publishing, right?)
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Given that I'm not assuming that, perhaps it would help if you stopped assuming that I'm assuming that.
I'm sure there are plenty of good authors who self publish. Rather obviously, at least some find a good audience and make good money at it. The only reason that I don't delve into self published books (other than a handful that are recommended here) is that I have little enough time to read the books that I know that I want to read. Some of the self published books that I have read I like well enough that I've bought other books by that author, while others were not my cup of tea, though I didn't think they were drek.
Obviously Sturgeon's Law applies. I never had the patience to sort though the 90% of drek to get the 10% of non drek. I'm sure that self published books have the same ratio of good to bad that slush piles do. Way back when, Baen actually opened up his slush pile (unsolicited manuscripts) for readers to sort through. Some people absolutely loved doing that. I wasn't one of them.