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Originally Posted by issybird
Since obviously there's a large market that's willing to consider self-pub, the contest is not self-pub v trad-pub; the real competition is between the quality indies and their illiterate or untalented brethren and how to differentiate themselves from that pack, the overwhelming majority.
I knew there must be some quality indie offerings out there, but I also don't see the point of trying to seek than out. The only real argument is that they're cheaper, but generally I think trad-pub is cheap enough or there's the library.
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That's it exactly...this isn't meant to exclude or dismiss trad pub, rather for those who want to explore the much larger new crop of indies, how does one best manage it.
As side from price, however, the other reasons for looking at that crop were among the points I asked we set aside here: Perhaps there are gems in the indie crop that have escaped the biases, censorship and mistakes and other arbitrary or intentional barriers of the trad-pub gate keeping. I didn't want to make this thread the venue for discussing those things, but there is the implicit stipulation here that there is SOME REASON the new indie crop is worth looking at, else "stick to trad pub" would not only be AN answer, it would be THE answer.
As Darryl mentioned earlier, "Gatekeeper" is now the wrong word for the indie side, where the gates are gone, but rather it's the still-useful functions of that role I'm looking to keep. Rather than "Gatekeeper," maybe "Guide" or "Helpful person at the info kiosk" is a better term.
<Rushing to register the domain 'helpfulpersonatheinfokiosk.com'...>
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