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Originally Posted by kyrilson
I get a lot of these ads too. Some of the books are surprisingly good, though. Worth the low cost to me, usually.
And Kindle Unlimited has been great for me. When I first started using it, the books were mostly terrible, but now, most of the ones I end up checking out are usually pretty decent. I don't know if that's because the quality has gone up, or if Amazon has just gotten better at figuring out what I like. Maybe a little of both.
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Y'know, me too on KU. Agreed that originally, I rolled my eyes and wondered what the Hades I was funding at the Zon, for my $10 clams a month or what-have-you, but now, I've found some authors that I've enjoyed. Not reading Tolstoy, mind you, but for potato-chip books,
it's a bargain.
(I do find that I've discovered a couple of authors that haven't yet developed that typical "depth" of writing that you find with trade-pubbed fiction, often; just as one example, using mirrored subplots to more fully examine a theme. Much like the old kvetch about Chinese food-- that you eat it and 30 minutes later, you're hungry again--I do find those a
bit unsatisfying. I hope that some of these folks develop that, but I wonder, in today's world, sans writing groups, writing conferences, critique groups and coaches, etc., why the heck
would they ever feel compelled to do that? And I'm certainly not presumptuous enough to email him/her/them and suggest, "hey, why don't you broaden/deepen your novels by doing this or that?," inasmuch as the voracious reader in me wishes I would.)
Hitch