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Originally Posted by gmw
There is no denying that the ease of self-publishing means a lot of stuff gets out that probably should have been left in the desk, or, at best, shared on a blog or something. This is one of the reasons why I inserted "and to assume the writer is serious about the craft" into the top of my post. The fact is that a lot of people that self-publish are not serious about the craft, possibly may even laugh at the idea. I would not expect them to be interested in the question of quality or quantity. For some, I suspect, self-publishing is not much more than a sort of social media extension, a way to share what they've written with friends etc.
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One of the problems, though, is that when the only feedback many self-published authors receive is from friends and family telling them how wonderful their book is, how can they know that it's actually not? It's far harder to get objective criticism these days, it seems to me.