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Originally Posted by Billi
(In general, I think we shouldn't be too nose-up and welcome these books too.)
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It isn't a question of putting one's nose in the air and disparaging certain kinds of content. It's a question of the e-book feed's being drowned in the deluge of one person's output -- as many as thirty uploads a day every single day.
Every e-book should be "welcomed" in the sense of having the chance to be seen.
At a public reading by several different writers, each is allotted a certain amount of time so that the other writers will have the opportunity to be heard. Why shouldn't MR's feed of ebooks be set up that way, too?
Perhaps everyone who creates e-books should have an allotted number of uploads per day (let's say ten -- five e-books in two different formats) so that, every single day, the feed doesn't come to represent one person's contribution alone, and others who contribute have a fair chance of having their work seen while it's fresh.
People shouldn't have to use a search engine to find a book that was uploaded today simply because one uploader chooses not to give other contributors any space on the front page.
Besides which, in terms of content, it doesn't matter what sort of book is being uploaded. No one who creates, edits and publishes ten to fifteen books in multiple formats every day can be paying much attention to the quality of the text and format, let alone checking either one for errors.