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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Your points are all valid. However many book purchases are impulse buys, and when an author writes a really killer promotional post with knowledge of the subject and obvious passion; I have, in the past at least, assumed this was an indication of writing and organizational skill, and that the level of quality of the promotional post was a reasonable indication of the quality of the book being promoted.
I guess my original post was, in a way, an announcement of the end of my innocence. I'm just NOT going to make those assumptions any more.
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Sample, sample, sample!!! (Your original didn't mention a sampling...I'm curious. If you had sampled, say, the first 30 pages, would you have avoided the problem?)
I read books by self-pub'd authors now more than ever. I sample now more than ever. Those two things don't actually go together. The e-reader is what turned me into a sampler. I rarely even download the freebies without sampling. The last three books I downloaded from "traditional" publishers I didn't sample. I didn't like any of them.
(That is not to say that self-published do not have issues.)
That said--we love you impulse buyers.
Maria