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@Mivo. What this shows to me is that you are not selecting your books effectively. It seems to me to be quite obvious that with anyone able to publish there are some really appalling self-published books. I've come across very few of them, and none recently. Probably 80% of my reading is Indies, and I find little difference in quality from when it was 100% tradpub.
I do come across books which whilst readable and far from appalling could benefit substantially from the attentions of a good editor. This is frustrating. At the end of the book I am left with the feeling that it was good but could have been great. I console myself with the thought that under the tradpub model I would never have had the pleasure of reading the book at all, a far worse evil.
A very little effort on your part should allow you to avoid the real drivel. If you're not prepared to do this, stick to the Big 5. You will still get some terrible books on occasion, but not as many as you are likely to get in picking self-published books essentially at random.
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