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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Of course there are very bad self published books. What's the point? You don't have to read them and fortunately that kind of bad is the easiest to spot. As I said, one doesn't read random books. Comparing by the bottom is pretty useless. Who is interested in the worst book ever? The problem is simply one of discoverability. Of course with more books, the problem gets bigger (but it is more a problem for the authors than the readers).
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sad point is out of the 1,000,000 self published titles there have been only a few dozen recommendations, the same ones people have recommended 5 years ago. The odds of finding a "very bad" or "worst book" is tremendously high ... near 100%. There should be thousands of titles for recommendation as I'm sure there are at least that many high quality books available.
Added: Yes, discoverability is a problem for everyone.