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Originally Posted by moonshot
I've just tried it and nothing has changed, so I guess you are right about that. 
But I guess I am fighting a loosing battle on this site, to many people, I guess have a vested interest in not wanting to change things. |
You keep trotting out that ad hominem, but it's not going to work any better. If authors were the only ones who claimed that if you wrote a book you were an author and that people really wanted self-published books to carry a scarlet letter, then we would expect that your position would be the dominant one. There would be little or no demand for self-published books. Yet your position is the fringe position. The e-book retailers wouldn't be so interested in selling self-published books if there wasn't a market for them.
You keep ignoring important points:
Don't critics provide valuable input into what books might be good?
Don't reviews provide valuable input into what books might be good?
Don't sales figures provide valuable input into what books might be good - at least they tell you a lot of people liked them.
Don't awards tell you what books might be good?
Doesn't word of mouth tell you what books might be good?
If you've used the above tools to point you do a book doesn't the blurb give you valuable input into whether or not the book is good?
If you're still interested after reading the blurb, doesn't the free sample give you valuable input into what books might be good?
If you've gone far enough to pay for the book, doesn't the fact that you can return it for a refund alleviate your concerns that you can't get your money back?
With all these tools at your disposal, is it really true that you just can't tell what might be good from what might be bad? If so, then perhaps "Fun with Dick and Jane" is more on your level. Oh, I don't seriously think that your level is really so low, I don't think you really have such terrible problems finding books to read. But then what's the fuss? Does it simply offend you that these unapproved books are out there, that no one asked you for permission for them to be offered for sale?
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I bit like me going onto a religious site stating that there is no God.
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It's more like going onto a math forum and insisting that 2+2=5.