I don't know how it is called, but what we see here is a psychological problem: we "freeze" if we have to much alternatives before us. We need to learn how to cope with it. Just consider a super market. You want to buy peanuts and there is a whole shelf full with them. Which one do I pick? We all have established some "rules" how we pick. Some just grab the most expensive one, trusting it is the "best", some pick the cheapest, because they are all the same, and a myriad of methods between. None of these methods is perfect, but they allow for a decision. People that have no experience with that kind of alternatives are nearly unable to choose.
Likewise some methods of choosing books that did work before for some do not work anymore. They need to learn new ways of choosing or ignore these self published books.
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