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Originally Posted by Blossom
Do you read romance? I see alot of people on this thread that are quite clueless when it comes to romance readers and how we buy books.
The romance reader is a special breed. We don't think like several of you in this thread that have been speculating why things in the romance marketing is changing.
Remember it was us romance readers that brought Scribd to its knees.
There wasn't crap in Romance before the indie boom. Sorry to say you are wrong on this, very wrong. Romance has always produced good quality reads when Indie happen we flocked to it because suddenly we saw writing that was outside the rules that publishers had for authors who write romance. As Atunuh said so many crappy writers jumped on the 50 Shades bandwidth and flooded the market with junk.
Romance publishers had always been very careful what made it to print with indie authors anyone can throw a book up. This is the markets downfall. We romance readers crave quality, well editing stories and we can get that in the big publishers or authors we trust.
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Yup, spot on. And more often than not, I find my way to publishers to get that quality. They know the genres. I don't have to wonder if those authors know what the genre is. I don't have to answer the question again to an aspiring author "Do I write romance? I have sex in my book is it a romance?"
Trust is huge with romance readers. And we are after all the ones carrying the industry, before and after indy authors.