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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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.
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Brian,
I could go on for hours but alas most of the horrible authors I have forgotten.
In my own experience and I once sampled about 100 self published books for a quick survey.
Note all had been picked up free.
Of those 100, 25 were completely unreadable as to literacy.
25 were readable but not well put together or were just part of a book.
25 were good but not to my particular taste.
The rest were fantastic.
Two books stand out in my mind as horrible.
One was a biography. Since the author made a glaring error I actually called the subject of the book. She had represented herself as a professional author to the old man.
The book was not even proofread.
The other was some blogger that was literally selling chapters.