on Helping Writers become Authors:
Why do so many bad books sell on Amazon? This is the question many authors are asking these days.
There are far more bad books than good books (which is always true of any entertainment field), but what’s different this time is that low-quality stories often seem to sell better than good stuff.
“Low-quality” isn’t a judgment about taste, reading level, or genre. I mean that books with poor writing, obvious filler, nonexistent characterization, and sometimes entire copy-pasted passages get into the Top 100 of popular categories.
As a reader, when I fall for one of these top-charting books, I find myself thinking, This book shouldn’t be anywhere close to the top.
Reblogged this on firefly465 and commented:
A must read post thanks to Chris for sharing.
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This is a wonderful post, Chris, thanks for sharing. I had no idea this was going on in Amazon, but the post gave us hope too. :):)
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Glad you found it useful, Adele 🤗
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Interesting.
Of course the real problem is getting enough sales so that you get enough exposure for the ‘thirty day cliff’ to be a problem.
A lot of us never get high enough up the rankings for Amazon to give us exposure in the first place 😦
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