I love seeing it become easy for authors to publish their books. It can be difficult for someone with a great story to get it out into the world and this helps to take some this issue away, though this person would still need to be able to effectively market his or herself. Still, print on demand publishing also gives someone the option to have a nice copy of the book for his or herself, even if they are not interested in being known.
However, I do understand the trouble of more published work that really isn’t that good. It can be found all over the internet in random stories posted to blogs whether fan fiction or original. There are also those who write and write and honestly don’t have any idea what they are writing about. They can claim to be an expert in physics, but not know what gravity is. On top of that, typos are easy to make and without editors or rigorous scrutiny by the writer can be overlooked. There have been many occasions where I’ve looked over something that I had written months later and yelled “How did I miss that?!” before mentally sinking into a corner of shame.
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