MobileRead, of course, can be a marketing tool. We have a forum called 'Self-Promotions,' which is specifically a place where authors can regale the world with their masterpieces.
However, to see MobileRead only as venue for such a narrow category of participation is to short-change the very community in which one proposes to belong.
MobileRead is so much more and, in fact, we discourage authors who ONLY wish to self-promote.
Most authors - including Jordan - do, indeed, participate and contribute to our community. Only a few are of such a narcissistic bent that they do the "post and disappear" routine. Until, of course, it's time to do another promotion.
So, yes, MobileRead is certainly a 'marketing tool.' But it's so much more than that.
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