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Originally Posted by kennyc
+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  ). |
There's never a guarantee, I remember being immensely impressed with the opening of David Guterson's "Our Lady of the Forest" and then giving up on the book about halfway through (in the paper book days), same for the terrible novel "The ice Storm" (which was relatively short). I think what I'm driving at here is that there's crap published across the board, and there's not really anybody who can tell you what is crap and what isn't, that's for you to decide.