The glut of indies and the corresponding glut of crap has just changed how I read. I used to rarely buy books from authors that I wasn't familiar with and so I had fewer books to read. With all the free books now, I
like fishing through the stacks for something interesting and don't mind discarding a book (or ten) after a few pages if its grammar is poor or if it's plain old boring. If I'm not in the mood for fishing, I not only have a TBR list of authors that I know I like, but I also reread books that I particularly enjoyed the first time and that list is now growing
much faster than it used to.
The biggest problem for me is that most indie authors need day jobs and so the ones I like haven't written as many books as I want to read.
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Originally Posted by Atunah
The other thing for me is also that some genres I read are not really represented by self publishers at all. Historical Mystery and Urban Fantasy are some of the other genres I love and I don't really see an SP stuff there. Mind you, I only read full books, not shorts and novellas or serials.
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I can't say anything about Historical Mystery, but I troll Amazon's SF/Fantasy freebies and find lots of Urban Fantasy. There may be some other criterion that eliminates many for you (the protagonist is in high school or there's too much sex with werewolves, for example). but I don't find the overall genre to be lacking.
Since part of the fun of this thread is describing some of the bad editing, two of the recent errors that I couldn't get past were descriptions of a northern forest with its many "fur trees" and heroes converging on a city that was "ripe with corruption".