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Originally Posted by Readirect
You can always download a sample of any book that you want. Read the sample and, if you like the sample, buy the book.
Not exactly rocket science, is it?
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A perfect system. Finish your current book. Go to Amazon. Narrow down your search to something like English language mysteries published in the last thirty days. Wonderful, only about eight thousand new books to slog through -- of which maybe a few hundred? are or have ever been trad pubbed (heaven forbid you're interested in back llists). Get impatient and try a few random samples. Find one that doesn't seem too awful and buy it, only to discover it was produced by one of the hoodwinking ghostwriters the OP mentioned -- a few chapters of an actual readable book, followed by unedited garbage or samples/ads for a bunch of other books.
If you only want to read best-sellers or whatever Amazon and the major publishers are pushing this month it's easy; otherwise, not so much.
Fortunately for me I'm retired. I have enough time to be able to think of the search as part of my reading hobby -- along with comparing prices between ebookstores, making lists of books and adding them to ereaderiq for price watch, following fictfact, bookbub, bookgorilla, earlybirdbooks, favorite author newsletters, etc., virtual travelling, maintaining my Calibre library, researching and buying ereaders and cases, and spending time here.
