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Originally Posted by HarryT
With a traditionally-published author I can be pretty sure that the book won't contain spelling or grammatical errors, and that it'll be reasonably well-written. That is of course no guarantee that I'll enjoy it, but it rules out my biggest problem with self-published books: the fact that the majority have never been in the hands of a decent editor.
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Coincidentally, this just came up.
Know any Good Self-pub Books?
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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.  |