My path to finding new authors is a bit vague. Often it involves reading about how awesome an author is on different blogs, and if I stumble upon it and the price is right I buy it. Right now, I am broke so I mostly browse through
Baen CDs at The Fifth Imperium. I primarly get books I have in paper ( somewhere), or books I have been curious about for awhile
. Paraphrasing one of my teachers from high school: " All books are new if I haven't read them before."