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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It's a bit more of an inconvenience, I can't even bother myself to wade through the titles at Amazon because I know most of them are garbage such as this thread refers to.
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False. Most of them are NOT knockoffs. I did a search in the Amazon Kindle Store looking for Twilight. It wasn't until result #77 that I got to anything that looked like a knockoff. The other results were either Twilight books, books about the Twilight books, books about the Twilight movies, or clearly unrelated books with the same title. It wasn't until result #77 that I got a result that has the word "Twilight" in the title. It was "Twilight Fulfilled", and from what I could read from the blurb, it did involve a vampire. But even there, the name is similar, but not identical, and there is no attempt to fool a purchaser my making up a pen name similar to the author of the more well-known book. And I had to spend some time searching to find even that. If I was looking to buy Twilight (I'm not, but it is a book that many people would search for) I wouldn't have searched that far, link #1 on the first page would have been what I was looking for.
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This is no nightmare, this is a dream. Revenue sharing determined by length of time spent reading. It is expected to reduce the garbage by upwards of 75%. Over time we think the garbage merchants will move on to other outlets if any still exist, which they might not.
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What you propose is indeed a nightmare. "It is expected?" By whom is this expected? If you mean that YOU expect this, then say so. What you are proposing is to take from readers the right to make their own book choices and instead to hand that power over to some book commissar who will decide which books and which authors are rewarded. That is a nightmare. It wouldn't reduce crap, it would guarantee crap. You would only have what the book commissar wanted you to have. "Why We Love the Book Commissar" would be rewarded richly, but "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Book Commissar" wouldn't get past the book commissar. The reader decides what books are worthwhile, not some dictator.
That a book might not be the book you are looking for is a small price to pay for the right to choose the books you want to read. One person might say a book is crap, while another person says that the book is fantastic. It's up to the reader to make that decision. I have no interest in reading Twilight, but I will make that decision for myself instead of having a book commissar decide it for me.