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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The books that don't have a very good story never make it onto my radar.
And the ones that make it onto my radar are usually pretty well edited -- or so I would guess, based on the general lack of spelling and grammar errors.
I would say, they tend to have about as many errors as a tradpub book, which is to say, a few.
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Self-published does not automatically mean "self-edited", "self-formated", "self-proofed", or even, "self-designed" cover.
Indie publishers have access to the same pool of freelance professionals as the BPHs, most of them being veterans "made redundant" by the mergers that have been consolidating tradpub for the last 30 years.
Some authors are talented enough to create their own covers, for example, or are able to edit their own work but the majority simply contract out to freelancers.
The only unavoidable production difference between going Indie or tradpub is that producing market-ready Indie books only costs the author a fixed, one-time fee, not 75% of net for the life of the copyright.