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Originally Posted by pwalker8
No, you are reading far too much into the example. I speak in generalities not in absolutes. I actually read a number of indies and have several in my favorites list. I said that the indie market is trying to fill the niche that the used book store use to fill. Note, that used book stores filled a lot of roles. You had the people who just wanted generic books of whatever genre they liked (my mother liked romance). It also filled the role of people who liked specific authors, but didn't want to pay full price, or were trying to find backlist books.
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I see now, thank you for clarifying. I absolutely agree that Indie, Inc and especially KU filled the niché of formerly used book store/club patrons that converted to ebooks. The advantage now is, that there is choice of brand new books as well. No longer is the selection limited to other people's "junk they no longer want." There may exist excellent second hand book stores in bigger cities, but not where I live.
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As far as traditional publishers being better than indies or self-published, I'm not really saying that. As mentioned before, several indies are on favorites list and I buy a lot of backlist books that are either published via Amazon or self-published. My major focus on tradition publishers isn't on publishers per se, but specific imprints.
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So with you not so much a matter of quality, but a matter of curation and ease of finding books you likely want to read.
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While Baen was alive, odds were pretty good that I was going to like at least half the books he published in a given month. Being a mostly SF&F reader during long periods of time, there were specific imprints, like Del Rey, DAW, Ace and Tor during specific time period where the books that were published under those imprints matched my taste quite a bit. For example, the Del Rey imprint still exists, but drifted away from my tastes back in the early 90's after Lester Del Rey died. More than anything, it's about liking the selections of a specific editor.
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Aye, your pet peeve of curation and discoverability shown in action by example. I do hope your prediction of the Apple Book store going to be curated similar to Apple Music comes true. Not so much that I would like to start buying from Apple, but that I really would want Amazon to do the same, especially for KU.