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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The free ren percent samples are enough to tell if the author can write.
No guarantee the narrative won't go south later but it helps weed out the ones who can't spin a coherent sentence.
The same applies to tradpub titles. (And let us not forget how publishers screamed bloody murder when Amazon introduced "look inside". They prefer it when people buy their books sight unseen.)
Finding good reads isn't anywhere near as hard as many like to pretend.
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Really?
Because filtering "Science Fiction & Fantasy" & "Last 30 Days" on Amazon UK gives me 6,947 hits, 519 of which are 4 stars and above.
So reading the samples is out unless I've pre-selected them somehow.
And that's just the last 30 days, I've given up
I check out the Humble bundle / story bundle stuff but other than that my only halfway reliable guide to what I will like is publishing imprint. Unless I spend more time looking for books than reading them, which kind of ruins the idea of reading for pleasure.
So, personally, I seem to be stuck in TradPub land as it currently seems to be my best filter mechanism. On the plus side SF Gateway alone can keep me stocked for several lifetimes so I'm not too worried about it.
