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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
And yes, new favorites fell in my lap because my Sister In Law were home with their kids and had more time to read when the kids were in school. They told me about new authors. My Mom is in a book club and I read the books that she buys so we can discuss them and that introduced me to new authors.
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Did you miss the part where I excluded "word of mouth" from the "falls into your lap" description?
If books primarily come to you through word-of-mouth recommendations, that won't change in a non-traditional publishing scenario. You just might have to tune into other mouths.
I'm not even complaining that people would rather not avail themselves of the free sample system. It's just that not WANTING to use the easiest, fastest tool available to quickly discard the drivel is not really the same thing as saying you don't have time to do so--or that it's unnecessarily burdensome to do so.
Tell me you're not near a computer or an internet connection when you do most of your browsing for books (although I find that unlikely if you're browsing for ebooks). Tell me you just don't like it for irrational reasons. But don't tell me you don't have enough
time (or that your current "choosing a new author to try all by myself" process is effortless) ... I simply don't believe you.