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Originally Posted by moonshot
Then it would be a good idea to somehow separate the 'author' who has spent some extra time, effort and money to get their book professionally edited etc. as typatterson67 did from the 'author' who has typed a few hundred pages and clicked it up to Amazon and stuck a price tag on it.
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We do need methods for telling good books from bad books. Fortunately, we already do have such methods. We can read critics and and reviews, best-seller lists and lists of award winners. We can read recommendations and listen to word of mouth. We can read blurbs and if we are still interested, we can read a sample. And if, after all that, we buy the book and don't like it we can get our money back.
If someone just typed up a couple hundred pages of crap, it's not going to be praised by critics, it's not going to be favorably reviewed, it's not going to sell many copies, it's not going to win awards, you're not going to have friends telling you how good the book is.
Do you truly find it so difficult to find books that are worth reading? Are you really unable to use these techniques to eliminate books you wouldn't like? A scarlet letter is not going to be placed in self-published books, no matter how much you might wish it. It's just not going to happen.