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Old 05-29-2019, 09:05 PM   #221
DNSB
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All I can say is those 374 randomly selected books made it very easy to believe that KU nothing more than a massive slush pile full of copycats.

See The shocking truth about the slush pile.
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I have the impression that it depends on your motives. If you want your bias confirmed then it will be easy to do so. If at first you don't succeed, change your strategy until you can find the confirmation to the answer you already had. Picking books at random is the worst possible strategy, IMHO. If I were to pick random traditionally published books from the whole list (not just the few front list books), then there be plenty books coming my way I have no interest in reading.

With the right strategy, you can do anything as seen here:
Ummm... given that about half the books I downloaded and started reading gave me the impression that they were created from a template. This was very noticeable in genre fiction where I began to get the impression the authors were subscribing to a template of the month club (this month the fiction templates of the month club is proud to bring you a romance template with vampire/shifter halfbreeds, a science fiction template with a military background and female commanding officers, a fantasy template featuring magic academies, etc.).

As for the content, spellchecking is a lost art, grammar has been left in the dustbin, misused homonyms are doing very well and and anachronisms are making a strong comeback. It made me long for an editor with a well sharpened pencil.
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