Thread: Will e-books spell the end of great writing?
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Old 12-09-2009, 07:00 AM   #52
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Given that I've actually read samples from, uh... 20-30 books or thereabout, which were praised by readers and still found all of them sub-par and the writing lacking, yes, I have little trust that self-publishing is such a great thing at the moment. Add my general dispointment with user reviews, which I don't think is such a great way of determining whether a book would be of interest to me.
So your real problem is with reviews then? Because I can randomly pick 20-30 professionally published books and they will have good reviews and will aslo suck mightily. I don't read reviews. If I made my choices on the backs of other people's opinions then all my choices would be terrible.
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