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Originally Posted by Ravensknight
please tell me you are being sarcastic.
Cause if you aren't, what kind of reader are you? If I like Author X, and my friend likes Author X, and we hang out at Author X fansite, and someone there says "golly gee willikers, if you like Author X, I just read a book by Author A and wow wheee, it was awesome and you might like it too" I'd go straight over to
Amazon to check out a synopsis and read reviews.
The reason we look for the unknown is to EXPLORE and make it KNOWN to us. It is the sign of a good reader.
[and if you were being sarcastic, my apologies, kind of  ] |
But that would be for books that you had heard of, or been told you might like, not books you hadn't heard of before. If you saw a book you had never heard of that said click here for free download would you really go looking for reviews of it or just download it and flick through it yourself?
If it was a DVD or something that would take a few hours to download maybe you would, but something that takes a few seconds? You could always go back and look for reviews if you decided you actually wanted to read it. Then once you read it you could decide whether it was good enough to make you want to read something else by that writer, maybe even send them some Paypal money like Xenophon suggests if they are easy to find.
But none of that would happen if you didn't download it first. They would just stay yet another writer that you had never heard of before. You would never buy any of their books, they would never make it onto your must read list, you would never tell any of your friends about them.