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Originally Posted by pwalker8
On the other position that you take, that it's as easy to find good indie books as good traditionally published book. I have to disagree. Not terribly surprising since I've put of more than a few rants on how hard it is to find good books. First, I'm going to talk about fiction only, since non-fiction is a very different kettle of fish.
This is where the publisher as the gate keeper comes into play. For years and years, I found that I liked the majority of the books that Baen publishing put out. That made it easy for me to find new authors. Since Jim Baen died, I find that my tastes don't match the new management quite as much. I do check out their monthly publishing schedule, but the days of buying all the monthly bundles are long gone. It's not as much a matter of quality as taste and quality. I found a number of new authors through Baen. Before Baen, I think Del Ray was the imprint of choice. Perhaps you never found an imprint that matched your taste as well as Baen matched mine.
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It seems you just found a publisher (a very specialized one) who liked the same books you do. Good for you. I would say, that is what small publishers (or some imprints of big publishers) try.
Of course there are other similar ways. For example: find reviewers with similar tastes to you. That is much easier nowadays, since there are many more reviewers then in the days of only professional critics. Talking and reading about books helps too. Of course there are always people, who give bad recommendations, but most people try to be helpfull and bad recommendation are mostly easy to spot.
I think it is nowadays much more easy to find the next read then ever before. My to be read pile (not physically) only grows.