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Originally Posted by Fbone
It doesn't mean the books are poor quality just that the author may be overzealous in her "marketing." We just need other criteria for determining purchase-worthiness.
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Author ethics, or a noticeable lack thereof, seem a good enough purchase-worthiness determination criterion for me when it comes from transferring money from my pocket to theirs.
I'm fine and even occasionally pleased to accept promotional freebies of dubious background. It lets me indulge my morbid curiosity at no cost besides my time, should I choose to spend it.
But as for my actually paying real money to someone who's been less-than-competently attempting to deceive people in order to get them to pay real money for less-than-competently deceptively-marketed wares?
Ahahahaha…
no, not unless one's skill and enjoyability are such that little lapses like that can be readily forgiven, which most people simply don't have the talent for to produce works of sufficient quality in the first place.
There's enough quality work out there that I'd personally much rather spend my time and money supporting authors who produce and promote such work in a fair and professional manner, letting it stand on its own merits, rather than go and subsidize those who don't just because they're merely producing work which may be of adequate quality which they present to the reader by whatever means they've no doubt decided are necessary to get ahead.