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Originally Posted by ahi
In our hopes, we are rather alike... and it seems our objective assumptions about our future are closer than it would first seem too.
Just one point I want to make... while you are right about most of the things you say, there is an obvious, blatant, and usually unflattering quality to the vast majority of self-published works. The fact that otherwise published books can also look bad and be bad, does not alter the fact that there are very specific ways that the majority of self-published works are bad... and might well have been fixed, if a published had bothered to pick it up and put time/money into it.
Nor does any of what I said mean that self-publishing a supremely professional book is somehow unachievable, or even difficult. It isn't difficult. But the fact is that it rarely happens for both psychological and commercial reasons that are unlikely to change...
- Ahi
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See that's where I most have a problem. If there's so much money and time and
expertise invested by the trad publishing industry and it's still producing
crap then what is their purpose any longer? Why shouldn't I pick honest and raw
crap over polished
crap that the industry gives me? Have you seen the best seller lists from the last ten years? Its like a countdown in average IQ of the reader, and this isn't a knock on genre fiction, I happen to love genre fiction, but most of what is published by the majors is very weak. In the
unpubs I still might find something daring or challenging, or just plain honest and raw enough to stand out.