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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the greatest respect, Richard, there's all the difference in the world between a member who chooses not to post much, and someone who comes to MR with the sole purpose of advertising their own products. MobileRead is (supposedly) a discussion forum for those who have an interest in reading on mobile devices; it's not intended to be a marketplace for spammers. I think we can all tell the difference between the two types of person.
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With the greatest respect to a moderator, I was under the impression that the whole point of the AUTHOR SELF PROMOTIONS forum was so that authors could have a place to be marketplace spammers.
I, for one, appreciate that forum as a reader -- there are a LOT of indie books out there to wade through and having seen the author in the AUTHOR SELF PROMOTION forum helps me to be a little more selective.
In all honesty, I really don't see the big deal here, and reading this thread I feel like I'm probably in the majority in that? If you don't like the AUTHOR SELF PROMOTIONS, you stay out of the sandbox for that particular forum -- I don't think it's bleeding over into the B&N forums.
I kind of see this as a proposal that the authors must be X tall (or have Y-many eReaders) to ride the self-promotions ride, and I don't see the point. I mean, you can always lie about your device, no?
OMG EVERYONE I HAVE A KINDLE NOW. MY PROFILE SAYS SO.
