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Originally Posted by rhadin
Determining dreck from literature is no different than separating great musci from poor music, great plays from lousy plays, classic movies from movies best forgotten, great actors from wanna-be has-beens, great baseball players from who?, etc. We do it every day and we do it with the aid and guidance of "experts" and by building consensus. Why are books any different?
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It isn't. How many care about movie experts now, for example, before they decide what to see? How many look up stuff about a movie online, comparatively?
However, publishers of books are very secretive about their actual performance in the market.
Unlike movies or baseball players.