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Originally Posted by kennyc
Joe, everything changed with the internet/web and with it's ability for EVERYONE to Publish ANYTHING -- good or not. As I said I don't want to read the entire internet, nor do I want to spend my time reading every ebook publication to see if it is worth my time.
I think there was some of what I'm saying in the print world in the reviews, anthologies, etc. What I'm suggesting is that with the flood of ebooks (many of which would never have made it through the ranks of the publication process) the situation is worse. I see many websites pushing their (less than good) products and authors self-publishing and pushing their work -- work which would never see the light of day except for that fact that they are now their own writer, editor, publisher and promoter.
What I'm saying is there is a greater need for trustworthy reviewing of ebooks than there was in the print world.
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I think this is where you and I differ most greatly. I don't trust reviewers, especially reviewers in the old media world (a bigger bought and sold bunch there is not). I
do respect the opinions of friends, even when those opinions are absolutely wrong and I hate the book/music/film etc. I know what I like, and the preponderance of 'indie-publishing' efforts means that I have
more chances of finding something I like, not less. I suppose it's because I come from the world where independently published music was the norm for me, and that mentality has crossed over. I still don't understand why so many readers are reticent to try new writers and, especially, writers who offer their work for free. You'll know within a chapter if you like the work or not. I usually know after a paragraph, and then that's after I've first been enticed by a blurb. I spend no more time deciding on fiction now, than I did before I got a reader. I just have more to read now than ever before, and a lot of it better (Nick Name, Small Stories at Feedbooks being amongst my favourites, also a brilliant book called Tokyo Zero by Marc Horne, which is well worth reading).
I'm currently reading this long/short story - Sweet Dream, Silver Screen by Moxie Mezcal -
http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7386 - which I'm loving, and its free too
