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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Never in the history of the planet has there been so many tools (easy, efficient and powerful tools) at reader's disposal to find great books to read without having to leave their homes. Yet many people want to complain that good books don't fall out of the sky into their laps any more. Well guess what? They never did. Get over it.
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Perfectly stated.
+1,000,000.
The "dreck problem" has always existed.
Mostly because one person's dreck is the next person's literary masterpiece.
(The randy Penguin drops 15,000 titles a year. They're not all masterpieces. Some years, none are.)
People like to forget that the current explosion in online bookstore catalogs is driven to a large extent by tradpub backlist and by previously tradpub authors rereleasing reverted titles. The "tsunami of dreck" is a tsunami of backlist. Yesterday's bestsellers back to haunt today's offerings. Hardly a reader's problem. Especially if the reader favors a genre that respects its past.
They also like to forget that bookstores are organized by genre and the good online stores sort books by subject, subgenre, and themes. Prefer portal fantasies to military SF? Two clicks and you're there.
There might be 4 million titles for sale but you can easily exclude all but the subject you want. History your thing? Click and you're there. Sort by author, period, new release, preorder or series. What's not to like?
All from your reading room recliner or home library.
No driving for an hour to find...nothing worth the trip.
Been there, done that...on a weekly basis.
I don't pine for the past.
The ebook present suits me just fine.