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carandol · 02-24-2008, 08:15 AM

I've been thinking about ebooks and the way they're changing the publishing industry, and how in some cases the traditional publisher is ceasing to be a middle-man between the writer and the reader. Some authors are choosing to publish direct to the internet, and there are thousands of public domain books, many of them little-known, which are resurfacing after years of obscurity.

Now your can say many rude things about publishers, but they do at least perform the function of sorting the wheat from the chaff -- discarding the complete rubbish, and hopefully improving and tightening up the good stuff before it reaches us readers. Without a publisher between writer and reader, chances are we're going to have to read a lot more rubbish in years to come.

This leads me to think that there should be somewhere on the internet where well-written, considered, reliable reviews of ebooks can be found. And what better place than MobileRead? I was wondering what others thought of the idea of starting a section *just* for reviews, with discussion of those reviews perhaps in a different thread. That way, people looking for a review of an ebook they've found will know where to look, and people on the lookout for something to read can browse the reviews and then follow a link to download the book in question.

What does anyone else think of this?

02-24-2008, 08:15 AM	#1
carandol Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 2153430 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: BeBook	Reviews I've been thinking about ebooks and the way they're changing the publishing industry, and how in some cases the traditional publisher is ceasing to be a middle-man between the writer and the reader. Some authors are choosing to publish direct to the internet, and there are thousands of public domain books, many of them little-known, which are resurfacing after years of obscurity. Now your can say many rude things about publishers, but they do at least perform the function of sorting the wheat from the chaff -- discarding the complete rubbish, and hopefully improving and tightening up the good stuff before it reaches us readers. Without a publisher between writer and reader, chances are we're going to have to read a lot more rubbish in years to come. This leads me to think that there should be somewhere on the internet where well-written, considered, reliable reviews of ebooks can be found. And what better place than MobileRead? I was wondering what others thought of the idea of starting a section just for reviews, with discussion of those reviews perhaps in a different thread. That way, people looking for a review of an ebook they've found will know where to look, and people on the lookout for something to read can browse the reviews and then follow a link to download the book in question. What does anyone else think of this?