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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Depends. I read self-published books pretty often and have found many enjoyable and reasonably well-edited works. OTOH, I have been bored to tears with quite a lot of books from the mainstream publishers. So I'm grateful self-publishing exists. Of course there are heaps of dreck, but I am content to do my own gatekeeping. Self-published books are generally cheaper too. I'm pretty grumpy when I'm forced to abandon a boring traditionally published book with the price tag of 10-15$. And it has happened a lot.
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I agree with this. I've read some pretty good stuff in the self-published areas, and boring dreck that's from a professional publishing house.
All in all, I'd much rather choose my own gatekeepers than have someone do that for me. Because no one out there is going to represent my personal likes and dislikes. They're going to go for the money, every time.
The best I can do is find reviewers who share my tastes, and let them do their reviews.
That person will come closer to finding books that do it for me than a business that doesn't care about my business, because I'm not in a large enough group to interest them.
Otherwise, I just do what I always do. Check out stuff before I buy, or leave my own review when I give some new stuff a chance.