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Originally Posted by MrsPartridge
Aside from the classics that are available for free, do you find the freebies offered on Kindle/Kobo/Sony etc. sites worth reading?
I was sure that most would be sort of below average - like reading a high schooler's attempt at fiction writing and no decent editing that you can get from a publishing house. However I'm really enjoying the freebie I got on the Sony site called "Romeo Romeo" by Robin Kaye.
Are you happy with the free books offered?
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From a writing quality standpoint, I think it's mixed. I've read some good stuff, and a fair quantity of bad stuff. A lot of free stuff is by writers just getting their feet wet, so to speak, and their their assessments of how publishable their work is can sometimes be off.
I think a bigger problem (from where I sit) is the quality of the formatting. Like the Gutenberg texts that show up on Amazon, the other freebie content can be generated by someone who clearly doesn't know what he/she is doing. This makes it more difficult to read what would otherwise be a good story.
But I'll say this: I often find myself downloading a Kindle freebie. The price is certainly right, and if it sucks for whatever reason, I can just stop reading it (or purge it from my Kindle altogether, if I deem it unworthy to be there).
For that matter, I'll do the same with the $1 books. A dollar's not going to break me either way, so they're worth taking a chance on.