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Originally Posted by issybird
It also tells you, at a minimum, that a corporation thinks they can make money producing it. That might not indicate quality, but at least it indicates a level of popularity or liking.
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Yeah, like
50 Shades of Gray.
That means nothing. Popularity is not a universal qualifier, whereas grammar is arbitrarily right or wrong.
And I simply have no faith that looking through popular books will skew my purchasing towards better-for-me books.
If only because my tastes aren't popular.
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With the exception of the really big names, most tradpub books aren't really all that popular themselves.
It is well-known that the Big 5 take a gamble on books that *they* like, and think others may like as well -- hoping to find a tremendous hit. By definition, most of those books are failures at that goal.
The popular and/or well-known indie books are at least as popular and well-known as the rank-and-file tradpub books of comparable quality, and whether a corporation originally thought they can make money producing it, is mostly irrelevant.
There are some tradpub failures that are less-well-known than some of the obscure irrelevancies in inde-pub.