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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The filter most useful to me would be one that excluded books by authors that have never been published by a major publisher, or by authors that have not had a book first published before a certain date (such as 1990).
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In other words, one that excluded indie authors, except for a narrow cherry-picked list of indie authors who republished their backlist?
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My book-buying criteria are "good books that I will enjoy reading".
I have gotten plenty of tradpub duds, and a number of excellent indies.
Your proposed filter does not actually serve a useful function -- for me at least -- since it doesn't actually separate the books I will like from the books I won't like.
It separates "books I will like together with books I won't like" from "a different set of books I will like together with books I won't like".
It doesn't even make me less likely to gamble on books I will turn out to end up not liking after all. ( <== Past Experience)