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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Wish someone would tell me how I can do that...
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If I knew how, I'd write a book about it!
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Originally Posted by frankelr
"Traditional publishers who provide quality e-books will continue to be successful under the traditional model. While some indy authors (especially those previously published) will be successful at self publishing (and a handful will become very successful), consumers will continue to pay $10+ for books from publishers because trying to find the handful of good books from the giant internet slush pile is to tedious for most readers...and is likely to become even more so in the future."
Lots of good arguments in this thread. But I take exception to the above.
The place of the screening editor can be replaced and bettered by consumer ratings.
Recent web actions by web sellers, to display consumer reviews, is my proof.
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I can imagine a world in which this might happen, but right now that's not the world we live in. It's just way to easy to game reviews, or to have 20 of your friends write positive reviews.
Of course there are exceptions - if you go to Amazon and look at reviews of 11/22/63, you'll find that 950 people have reviewed it and it has about a 4.5 overall rating. You'll want to read farther to find out if you think the book is your cup of tea, but with this many positive reviews, you can be fairly confident that the book is competently written and edited, at least.
But now look up a self-published book like "Damaged Goods" - it only has two ratings, both five stars. That's just not enough information to really know anything meaningful about the book. And most self-published books fall into that category...in large part because it's a struggle to get 950 readers, much less 950 people who will read and review the book.