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Originally Posted by Ditchleyportrait
you know what bothers me? not author spam.
the ppl looking for advice on which device to buy.
you can't figure it out yourself?!
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Well, sometimes there are valid questions to ask before buying, that may relate to something only experience may know.
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Originally Posted by fbrII
If a favorite author chooses to make comments about their books or the publishing industry or their feelings on the future print books, e-books as opposed to simply shilling their book, I would see that as contributing to the community whether they owned an e-reader or not, even if they wanted to post their objections to e-books.
If an author does have an e-reader does that now entitled them to self-promote? Are there valuable members of the community who don't see any particular value in listing the brand of their e-reader?
I don't question the logic of if you want to sell books you should probably own an e-reader. On the other hand, I don't think anybody would seriously want to apply it as a litmus test or say people who don't own e-readers don't belong here or are not going to be able to or be capable of contributing to the community. Or as somebody said earlier you can measure somebody's contribution to a community by the number of their posts or the amount of their Karma.
Right?
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For me, they don't have to own a reader. I read on my tabletpc, then my N800 before I got a reader. I just want them to have an interest in ebooks that extends past sales of their book. Ideally, I want someone to contribute to the community. Some places I've been, advertising your work was allowed, but only if you were considered a contributing member of the community. If you just came by to post an ad, it would be deleted. Something like that might be good.