We live in a world full of terrible e-book titles that ruin ebook discovery and make it difficult to find a good book. The Published Authors Network has strict requirements on who can join their organization. Indie authors are “unskilled individuals that suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. Indie authors are directly contributing to the worldwide decline in digital book sales. Online discovery on its own is fundamentally broken, thanks to indie authors.