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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
I find it rather narrow minded and shortsighted that some members seem to want to ban any input from Authors....
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Kevin, point out where someone has said they want to ban any input from authors, and I'll snark them myself. Harshly.
Nobody wants to ban any, or all, or some, or random amounts of, input by authors. Nor does anyone want to ban book promotions. We're readers. We
want to find new books to buy (or get free!). Frankly, I can't figure out where that interpretation of this discussion came from.
My suggestion -- maybe it needs another read-through? -- is that a board should be created for book promotion, so that a) people who want to read about new books can find what they're looking for easily, and b) people who want to read about other topics can find what
they're looking for on boards that are currently starting to drown under advertisements for books. It's good for everybody.
It's obvious that it's not clear where book ads should be posted, since they regularly turn up on four different boards. So the natural solution is to set up a board where they clearly and obviously belong. It has
nothing to do with banning anyone, or anyone's input -- just to sort ads for books into an ads-for-books board, the way, say, questions about calibre get posted on, or moved to, the calibre board.
I don't think we need sub-boards for genres; the board could just use the tags from the MR ebook posts.