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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I like the ads. It is how I find books. Trolling thru the categories at booksellers is tedious and time consuming. Indie authors who advertise here are many times more likely to get my business, instead of being lost and pushed aside by promos for big name authors. And I ALWAYS appreciate when they bump the thread to remind me, as I mentioned previously.
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Dixie, nobody is suggesting doing away with book ads. My suggestion was a new forum section specifically for those book ads -- how about calling it the Book Fair? -- so that people like you (and me, once I've got my TBR list read down a bit) can find them.
I agree with you about the indie authors, too. One interesting fringe benefit of my refusal to buy DRM-restricted ebooks is that it has prevented me from buying books I would otherwise have bought from said big-name authors, and led me to buy more from people I'd never heard of before. From my experience so far, if the publishers see their role as gatekeepers, ensuring only the truly worthy are allowed to see print, they're failing badly. No indie book I've bought, even the not-so-good ones, has come close to the disappointment of
Carpe Demon or
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers.