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Old 01-06-2012, 04:15 PM   #106
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But how many of them are not either poorly written, poorly edited, full of errors, or just plain smut?
You make "smut" sound like a bad thing!
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What difference does it make? How many lifetimes do you have to read 74,000 books?
I think his point is that we don't really have a good picture of the signal-to-noise ratio here. My personal feeling is that a lot of these Amazon exclusive titles are not something I will ever, ever care to read.

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Old 01-06-2012, 05:26 PM   #108
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I think his point is that we don't really have a good picture of the signal-to-noise ratio here. My personal feeling is that a lot of these Amazon exclusive titles are not something I will ever, ever care to read.
Yes, that is exactly the point. So what if the count is 74000 if most of them are not of good quality. It just means you could end up borrowing a lot of lousy books and find the program a waste of time.

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You make "smut" sound like a bad thing!
The way a lot of these "self-published" authors write, it is.
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The way a lot of these "self-published" authors write, it is.
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Old 01-07-2012, 07:06 PM   #111
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Amazon removed some ebooks from the KDP Select lineup.

Down to 73,700
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Must be the self-published smut.
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I don't even mind the smut so much, but the covers are making it impossible for me to browse Amazon ebooks from work. That's annoying.
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Old 01-09-2012, 10:16 PM   #114
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The way a lot of these "self-published" authors write, it is.
Now, don't be mean. All self-published authors can't hit the literary heights of professionals like Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and whoever James Patterson is hiring these days.
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Old 01-09-2012, 10:45 PM   #115
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Now, don't be mean. All self-published authors can't hit the literary heights of professionals like Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer, and whoever James Patterson is hiring these days.
I'm all about the self-publish love. But I think JS Wolf is referencing... a tendency that seems to be cropping up lately in the sense that when Those Who Can't Write, Do they seem to churn out a LOT of erotica.

In my humble opinion, erotica is one of the hardest things to write correctly, but it's something that a good many people think must be easy because all you have to do is Write What You Know, right? But it's so much harder to convey an intimate experience like that without a lot of practice.

My 2 cents.
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But it's so much harder to convey an intimate experience like that without a lot of practice.
I'm not sure what you mean by "practice," exactly.
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This might be a bad time to take note of her device listing, as we ponder the meaning of her use of
the term "practice". Just saying.

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I suggest that we move on to another line of inquiry. .
Still, whatever turns you on.

Couldn't resist.
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Could you explain "the discounting issues I experienced through other retailers have
hurt my royalties at Amazon", are you saying that Amazon pays you less if you have
ebooks listed at other retailers?
If another bookstore lowers the price of your book, Amazon will automatically lower their price to match that lower price.
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*winks*

No, I meant practice with writing. Intimate experiences -- including sex and religious conversions -- are usually much harder to convey in writing than they are to experience in practice.

See also the IKEA Erotica trope.
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