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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
^Haha.
Executive summary: people look for books in different ways and have different tolerances for quality of grammar, spelling, and plot. Be careful when reading reviews as they aren't always genuine. Some people actually read samples and others feel this is a waste of your time. In the end, if you wait long enough the higher quality, which is subjective at best, tends to continue to be around while the crap or the not desired by many people tends to disappear. Amazon and other companies could do a better job on filtering and ranking search results in a manner that suits the myriad of random tastes consumers have.
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Good summary in general but the problem is the crap does not disappear any more. At near zero marginal cost there's no incentive for Amazon to ever remove an ebook from its servers. Even without the "crap" the back catalog of good books is growing at a huge rate. The filtering/search problem is only going to get worse.
It's more of a problem for authors getting noticed than it is for readers though.