Kindle Unlimited the home to heaps of turgid crap

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Christopher Hitchens was spot on when he said "Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay". I am not a discerning reader and have read plenty of rubbish books in my time but even I balk at some of the self published crap that appears on Amazon. In theory Kindle Unlimited is a great idea but the thing about properly published books is that someone somewhere thinks there is half a chance of getting a return on their investment for publishing it.

There are gems in the heap but Amazon doesn't help matters by it's limited sorting and filtering functionality. If I could sort and filter by sales/lending rank then maybe I wouldn't have to spend so long wading through the heap to find a gem. Even better would be a filter to only show books which have not been self published. I have just started reading Life Of Pi but I only found out this was available as a Kindle Unlimited book from another forum and not from searching Amazon.

I am not saying all self published books are rubbish as I have found some very good ones. But the gem to crap ratio seems very low and Amazon don;t seem to provide the tools to sift through the crap efficiently.

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jimmyjimjim said:

I've actually read some good feedback on KU for authors.

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2015/08/lets-t...

Interesting. I have actually read one of her books. IIRC not bad but it didn't grab me enough to read anymore of them. I think I am going to try and persuade a bloke who is putting together a PHD thesis proposal in the AI field to code a system to write fiction. There are quite a few systems writing music so one writing novels should be possible.