One More Time?

I've been quietly and respectfully communicating with various authors who self-publish. Mainly what I've been wondering about was how they were doing, sales-wise. All of them are having problems. Some of them blame Amazon for changing the way the books are listed, but most of them blame the flood of self-published books that are hitting the ebook market.

I'll write more on this later, but for now will have to leave it at that.

As I'd hoped when I wrote my first essays on the self-publishing fad, it finally seems to be fading. Not the number of self-published books...that's worse than ever. But even some of the people who had been doing well at the rigged game are now finding that their crap no longer sells--the reading public has realized that it just stinks.

For now, I take a short break until tomorrow. I have work to do.

The intentionally awful "novel" written to expose PUBLISHAMERICA. Now works far worse than this are published by the hundreds every few hours via Amazon and Smashwords, Kobo and Apple, etc. I wish someone could come up with a way to "expose" the flood of self-published garbage...but it's just too obvious to ridicule.