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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
One man's trash is one man's treasure 
This goes the same for pbooks, in my opinion. There's a lot of crap books out there that top the bestseller list. There's a lot of junk ebooks out there, sure, but I wade through them by seeing recommendations on here, or checking them out on goodreads. |
+1 Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying as well. In the print industry there were/are higher boundaries to self-publishing than on the web/electronically. And yes there is a lot of krap published by the name publishers as well. It really a matter of finding the recommendation sources or publishers or authors that you can trust for a good read.
Oh and on the topic of reading the first few paragraphs to determine if it's for you or not, certainly that is appropriate but that is no guarantee that it well be a good investment of your time -- particularly for a novel that will take a substantial amount of that precious time -- when the writer and publisher know this is the case. I've seen many a book that starts off excellent but totally peters out and is full of padding sometimes all the way to the end. Those are the ones I end up throwing across the room for wasting my time! (no I'm not going to throw my 505
).