Recently, I've become involved in several gallery fiction and advance release programs organized for indie authors. What strikes me most about the books I've received is that they are so very professional. Sometime back a lot of the works I read were unpolished, now it seems the authors have really gone out of their way to offer excellent copy. Books such as Bloom by Martin Kee, Identity X by Michelle Muckley, and Second Honeymoon by Mark Sousa, only prove the point. All are well written, tightly plotted stories that have been carefully produced and well edited.
If the future of Indie fiction has its foundation so firmly planted then I can only predict brilliant things. The Internet has offered many advantages to lots of people, the advantage of self-publishing independent works, it seems, is one of the most advanced.