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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
It really is.
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I disagree. Discoverability is only a problem (for a reader) if they seek to limit themselves to finding "good" self-pubbed books, and/or they're in the habit of buying books from their descriptions/covers alone. There's no need to do either, IMO.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Personally I've read some pretty good self-pubbed stuff, but I'm unlikely to try any of it cold especially since I'm not lacking for a TBR pile. I'm only likely going to give something a try after recommendations from others I know have similar tastes to my own, of course this is largely true for indie or trad pubbed titles right now too.
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Same here. I rarely buy books at random (trad- or self-pubbed). So for me there is no discoverability problem. Mostly because I'm not focusing on finding self-pubbed books--I'm focusing on finding
books. And people are throwing good ones at me left and right: some self-pubbed and some some trad-pubbed. And I don't need/want the good ones to be one or the other.
If I started selecting books to read at random, I wager it would be the same crapshoot for me in trad-pub land as it is in self-pub land. Mostly that's because I don't value competently written books that I don't like any higher than atrociously written books that I don't like.
