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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Sure, but the point I was making is that some (I have no idea of the proportion) aren't actually looking for objective criticism. They've achieved what they wanted simply by putting it up there. This presents a problem to the rest of us that would like to be taken seriously, but it isn't a problem to them.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Personally, I'd want quality over quantity. I want good books. If I read a book from an author I've never read before and I didn't like the book, I most likely won't be reading any more of that author's books.
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We all want quality, and when we find it we want lots of it.
Seriously, one of the things I look at when I think of trying a new author is how many other books have they written. If I'm going to put in the effort to try them I want to know there is a good sized pay-off on the other side. So I'm not sure if I would bother to try me out as a new author - which is a rather sad admission to make on an open forum ... did I really say it out loud?