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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's fine.
As I said, my only real beef is with the perpetuation of the idea that "these books are mostly more crap than the crappiest of these books" contributes much of anything to any discussion. Nobody reads for the crap, and very, very few choose blindly. So why bring it up at all? We all have filters, and pointing the size of the crap pile would only be relevant to someone who doesn't. *shrug*
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There is an important differentiating factor, to my mind:
When someone recommends a traditionally-published book to me, I can be assured that (unless it's a bad OCR scan) it will be free from errors of spelling and grammar, and is likely to have been reasonably well edited.
When someone recommends a self-published book to me, I always approach it with trepidation, knowing that in all likelihood, none of the above will be true, and that there are many people who don't care about such things.
Therein lies the difference. To many people it may not matter. To me, it does.