FWIW I have read the Goodkind series and it is an OK series, nothing great. I think the Robert Jordan series is much better (excluding the last issued volume), as is David Weber's Honor Harrington series and his new series that begins with Off Armageddon Reef. Of course, the Honor harrington series isn't really in the same genre as Goodkind's but here is one I wholeheartedly recommend that is:
The Firestaff Chronicles (
http://sennadar.com/wp/books/, which also happens to be free. The author, James Galloway, could have used a good editor, especially for misspellings, but it isn't hard to overlook those errors.
I raise this because perhaps the best thing to do, rather than gripe about Goodkind, is to find alternative authors and praise them. Compare them to Goodkind and let the world of ebook readers know they can get great similar reads elsewhere (and in this case, for free) and in easily accessible formats. Nothing will irritate folk like Goodkind as much as strikes against their authorial vanity.
BTW, another series I recommend in this genre is
The Rys Chronicles by Tracy Falbe (an MR member)
http://www.falbepublishing.com/brave...ree_ebook.html. It certainly is of equal caliber to Goodkind's series.