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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Often it just makes sense. Print is still bigger than eBooks and getting successfully in that market is done better by trad pubs.
Some of these authors have tried to get trad pubed and were rejected. As you can see at their success, trad pub has failed in these cases to pick the right books.
I mostly read trad pub books, but some times self published too. For my reading pleasure, only the quality if the book is important. Trad pub publishes so many bad books too. When was the last time, you picked up some random book, just because it surely has to be good, because it is published? I look at recommendations, reviews etc. to get inspirations to what to read next.
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One difference I note between trad-pub and self-pub books is that I never read a trad-pub book where the writing was simply, objectively amateurish at a word and sentence level. I may not like the trad-pub book, find it pointless, long-winded, going nowhere, or whatever (i.e. not my thing), but the basic craft is normally there. Presumably they wouldn't get into print otherwise. (Plus maybe they were edited?) Whereas I've seen a lot of self-pub stuff where the author's prose is execrable. They simply didn't know how to write at the most basic technical level. Obviously not always.
Looking at the two books I cite above, both author's make what are IMO technical mistakes that a good editor might have highlighted, and therefore improved.