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Originally Posted by tompe
I will prefer a more expensive book since if it is cheap you can suspect that the book is not so good since they have to compete using price.
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You are missing out on a world of excellent reading by making low price a disqualifier.
The availability of a free ebook and the knowledge that other books by the author were low priced, led me to try, for example, Shayne Parkinson, Vicki Tyley, Richard Tuttle, and L.J. Sellers. Each is an outstanding author in their genre and reading the free ebook led me to buy their other ebooks (in Tuttle's case that amounted to 28 ebooks).
One example: Parkinson's free
Sentence of Marriage was outstanding and I recommended it to my wife and to several friends. My wife read the book and recommended it to her friends. Everyione of us read all of Parkinson's available ebooks -- all as a result of
Sentence of Marriage being free.
If I had your approach, I never would have read any of these authors and would have missed out on some of the best writing available. That none of the BPHs published their books is meaningless. There are lots of reasons why a book doesn't get picked up by a publisher, none of which have anything to do with literary merit.