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Originally Posted by tompe
Did people read the article at all? Of course the consequence of getting people used to mediocre books will be that it will be harder to find (if they exist at all) very good books. And she is not talking about literary books.
To me is seems that people in this thread has gotten used to books that are not particular good and now need to protect themselves from realizing that or need to rationalize their behavior. So we are in this thread seeing one of the negative consequences she is fearing.
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Yes. You are right. I did get used to books that were not particularly good. I got used to such books well before Amazon came on to the scene. I find that I am reading no more "npg" books now than when the Big Publishers were in charge of "curating". There is, of course, much more being published now, and some of it really is terrible. I think if you downloaded 1000 books at random there would probably be a little more absolute garbage than there used to be. But, of course, we don't download books at random. We pick the books we think we might wish to read. And, of course, we have many tools to help us, including samples where we are doubtful.