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Originally Posted by haydnfan
Many of you seem to not care about discovery through browsing. I care. Many of my favorite novels and authors come from browsing through bookstores.
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I gave up browsing in book stores a long time ago. When they aren't just stocking the newest of any series, without the others around to buy, they were just all on one band wagon or another.
Whether it was Vampires, or Young Adult Dystopian Futures, they'd feature a bunch of one type of story and cut back on anything else. What ever they thought was hot and selling would be what was on the shelves.
I find it no fun to browse when they limit what they stock that way. I find so much more on-line that interests me. No competition with the book stores there.
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Originally Posted by haydnfan
We should be entitled to that kind of discovery with online stores. I don't care if there are mountains of poorly written self published works *as long as I don't have to see them.*
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But what does it hurt for you to see them, and then just pass them by? After all, your dreck may be my secret pleasure. And I may be missing out if the on-line sites just cater to your wishes.
I think the only solution is to let the market pick out the good stuff with purchases to encourage the good writers, point out the bad stuff with one-stars and complaints, and let us all fend for ourselves.
I think there are plenty of sites, groups and discussion forums, along with the various reviews and ranking systems, that if someone puts an effort into it, it'll work for them.
I'd much rather there be a lot of choices, and chose for myself, than to have someone else chose for me. Been there, done that, it sucks.