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Originally Posted by HarryT
Which is still the case, of course. Although there certainly are good self-published books out there, the overwhelming majority are complete crap. Being traditionally-published still imbues status to an author.
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I don't read a lot of self-pubbed stuff and most of what I do read comes from recommendations and the like, but what I have read has ended up being stuff I enjoyed.
What I'm wondering from the claim that the overwhelming majority of it is crap is have you read a lot of it? I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, it just seems to me that for that claim to hold much weight you'd need to have read (or at least tried) an awful lot of self-pubbed books. I know for many all/most self-pubbed = crap/junk/etc., but when I actually talk to people I know making that claim I come to find out that they've never actually read any or only one or two titles over the years. One of their filters is to simply skip anything that's self-pubbed which is fine, most of it doesn't hit my radar either. If you have read a lot of it I'd love to hear some of the horror stories about your worst finds.
I do agree that being trad-pubbed holds a certain cachet in many eyes and probably always will. It's definitely the majority of my reading list.