I don’t think indie published books are more likely to be mediocre. Instead, it’s just that there are *a lot* of them, and books in general. And so when there is a flood of like 3.6 out of 5 rated books, I just wonder who the audience is that goes and reads them. 

 If an author writes a book but nobody reads it but it still gets 3.6 out of 5 did a tree even fall?