Interesting article on self-publishing

Quote: What’s astonishing to me is that a lot of young writers hear all this advice and are told that it takes XYZ for your work to find a publisher, to be taken seriously, or whatever, and look what you have going on. You just knew [50 Shades of Grey] was going to inspire imitators with the hopes of making a lot of money – and the feeding frenzy of major publishers looking for it. It has absolutely nothing to do with quality or the idea of “good writing” like they always tell you. It has to do with money and whether they can sell it...

Quote: The logic is that “all self-published books are bad” because quite a few of them perhaps are. Does this logic apply when one reads a badly written book – of which there are many - from a major publisher?

(24 Sep 2012 06:01 AM)leep Wrote:  The logic is that “all self-published books are bad” because quite a few of them perhaps are. Does this logic apply when one reads a badly written book – of which there are many - from a major publisher?