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Originally Posted by stumped
Not a nasty comment , more of a let peeve.
I wish the ku books devoted less pages to urging readers to do social media stuff, sign up, follow me on... Appeals,. And quit stuffing end of book with sample chapters of something else the same author has written.
The annoyance of seeing dedications to Tom, Eick, Harrry And anyone else the author is on first name terms with pales in comparison to the above, but is still annoying. Dedications should be hand written when you greet the author face to face after buying his book, not published to the world.
Publisher's should share some of the blame. I don't want to follow anybody on any social platform, thank you very much.
Signed. A Luddite.
It's probably the publishers who insist on appending "a riveting mystery with an amazing twist" and similar nonsense to the actual book title.
Ps as for poor writing, my comments are based on the many prime reading best sellers I have swiftly returned, having quit after 1st chapter. There may well be good writers, somewhere in the 20,000 or more books on offer, but I have no way of finding them, since Amazon's algorithmic recommendations are so awful.
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Well, to be fair, the authors on KU have a LOT of competition, so it's kind of mandatory for them to participate in all the things you dislike, because they
have to in order to stand out and make any money. Amazon publishes around 2 million titles a year, so you can imagine how likely you are to get any notice, especially as a new author, if you don't shout to the world, "I'm here!"
And while I agree that the majority of self-published titles on KU that I've personally come across aren't likely to ever make anyone's top 100 books of all time, in any genre (at least by anyone you take seriously), there are a small number of good ones, and some of these authors do eventually get noticed and picked up by the big publishers.