SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Interesting list! I think book-bloggers (and sites like Goodreads) are how we're going to be able to find the Indie book gems.

Personally, it's going to take more than one blogger to get me to put down actual cash for an indie book. (Assuming the definition of indie is "self-published" rather than "from a small press.") Unless the blogger is someone whose taste I know dovetails very closely with mine, or they're a writer whose work I know I already enjoy.

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here, but with the zillions of books I can get from the library, and the facts of limited time and money, it's hard for indie books to get my attention. If they seem interesting I'll enter a FirstReads giveaway for one or something, but that's usually as far as it goes. (Heck, it's hard for conventional books to get my attention. There are plenty of conventionally published books that I think are dreck, and/or that I would rather stab myself with needles to the big toe than read.)

I'm guessing that the book-bloggers whose opinions effect buying habits are the book-bloggers whose reviews have worked for people for non-independent books, not those who focus exclusively on independents.

It's hard for _any_ book to get my attention. I don't particularly care who they're published by. But a book-blogger I respect saying "This is a good book, here's why I like it" will at least get me to consider it.