On my Kindle app on iPhone, I have a few self-pub/indie books. It's something I don't pay too much attention to though, since I get them all free.
Time Travel
No one talks about them because they're all terrible.
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Compared to the literary masterpieces of traditional publishing?
Stereotyping to the extreme, much?
Sure, there're plenty of self-published books that suffer from the lack of an editor/copyeditor and such, but as with everything else, there's a 10% worth dying for.
edited 9th Jun '12 3:36:08 PM by chihuahua0
Currently reading something called The Complete Knifepoint Horror which is a self-published collection of experimental horror stories. It eschews such fripperies as titles, paragraphs, capital letters and page numbers. Haven't fully formed my opinions on it yet, but this is definitely something no mainstream publisher would let the writer get away with. (A couple of the stories are pretty good once you get used to the style.)
Huh... you sure it just wasn't written by Cormac Mc Carthy?
I must admit I tend to read the samples of Print On Demand books. Oh, the horrors I have seen on those few pages. THE HORRORS
No, it's by some guy named Soren Narnia. (no idea if that's a pen name.) The one glaring problem so far is that all the characters have the same "voice"—A Nineteenth Century politician has the same vocabulary and grammar as a 21st Century dropout.
eta: Have now finished the book—my review is up on Goodreads, Livejournal and Dreamwidth. Summary: For advanced readers who enjoy a challenge and horror fans. If you're big on the Zombie Apocalypse subgenre, there's one ZA story in the book and it's quite good. However, I think "Knifepoint" will be even better as an audiobook or podfic.
edited 16th Jun '12 11:02:54 AM by SKJAM
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I'm not entirely sure if I've ever read a self-published book before. I hear they vary in quality.
That said, I recently got a book published via Book Baby.
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Eight-year necro of a thread that breaks the rules.
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I was wondering how many people in this forum read self-published books and, if you do, what favorites you might have. All the top topics in this forum are about the big names, let's share a little love for the underdogs.