Self publishing, by the numbers.

[SheilaT]

7. It's been probably a good twenty years since I've bought a self-published book,

and the few that I did buy I didn't have a chance to read reviews of.

These days, I always read reviews. As it happens, I rarely buy books, but instead get them from the library. The real advantage to that aside from saving money is that if I check out a book that I'm not finding very interesting, I'm willing to stop reading and just return it.

Too many people are terrible at self-editing. Yes, it's largely learnable, but not too many seem to try very hard.