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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
And quality control should fall to companies, to whom "quality" means "whatever will sell most?" And while controversy seems to do well in books, really out-of-the-mainstream views movies (also a form of fiction) don't tend to get made.
There are ways. Reviews, sites dedicated to recommending the good fiction. Popularity can be a good indicator. Besides, how do you find the "good" stuff now, even, with thousands of books available?
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Actually, I kind of went ot the library and just read the summaries and looked at the book covers for the longest time. when I was growing up there wasn't amazon.com and book reviews at the website. Now I go there and look to see if the title sounds interesting and what people are saying about the book.
I should have defined quality in my original post. To be clear I'm not talking about content or how much it sells but quality control in the sense that someone is there fixing the typos and plot holes and pushing the author to make the story the best it can be. The best fan fiction authors I've run across seem to have two or three beta readers and their work is to me at the same level if not better than much of what is published.
one of the reasons I've gradually stopped reading novels is because they all started to sound the same. At least with fan fiction if it starts to sound the same I haven't lost money and I can switch fandoms and still read the type of content I like to read.