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Recommendations, from friends and acquaintances. It makes no difference to me where the book is being sold or in which format, digital or print.
Mosrly from this group Lol. I've been trying to expand my horizons a bit, but I'm still picky. I see a person wrote a book, I find a 3star review read part of it and make a descision. Though I'm very lenient with books
Lily wrote: "Recommendations, from friends and acquaintances. It makes no difference to me where the book is being sold or in which format, digital or print."What do you do after you get the recommendation? Do you read the book no matter what? Or do you do further research?
Do you listen to some friends more than others...well, in terms of recommending books?
What if a friend recommends a book and you don't like it? Are you hesitant when it comes to further recommendations from them?
Dina wrote: "Lily wrote: "Recommendations, from friends and acquaintances. It makes no difference to me where the book is being sold or in which format, digital or print."What do you do after you get the reco..."
I'll read the blurb, the first page, then decide if I want to or not.
If a friend recommends a book that I've decided I'm not interested in, then I just politely decline. Thanks, but not for me. Though, that doesn't happen, beccause my friends are usually as weird as I am.
Michael wrote: "Mosrly from this group Lol. I've been trying to expand my horizons a bit, but I'm still picky. I see a person wrote a book, I find a 3star review read part of it and make a descision. Though I'm ve..."I like the idea of reading three star reviews.
Recommendations from a couple of my groups on this site, friends, my fav bloggers and Smashword.
Shari-amor wrote: "Recommendations from a couple of my groups on this site, friends, my fav bloggers and Smashword."I haven't spent a lot of time on Smashword yet. I need to look into that!
What are your favorite blogs? If you don't mind me asking
SBC, Elle's Book Blogs, Bookie Nookie, Moonrise, Horror After Dark. I can't think of any of my paranormal blogs right now.
I just started to get into smashword. Most of my indie romance/erotica authors are on there. My indie horror/paranormal authors are for the most part on amazon. Whenever I buy their books, I also use that "What others have checked out/purchased" feature. That'll lead me to other indie authors
My answer won't be much help for marketing. I go to the Amazon kindle store, get into a genre I like, sort everything from newest to oldest, go to a random page, click on things that look interesting, and then read the sample and decide if it's worth my time.
Virginia wrote: "My answer won't be much help for marketing. I go to the Amazon kindle store, get into a genre I like, sort everything from newest to oldest, go to a random page, click on things that look interesti..."It might not help with marketing, but it's still insightful. I like knowing that someone might find my book simply by browsing through listings.
What you do is a little bit like what I do when finding my mainstream readings. Each time we go to the library, I get a few books that I've written down as wanting to read. But then I also go to the adult fiction section; and each visit I go to the next shelf (from the last time we visited) look through all the books, and pick one book from that shelf.
I'm curious. How do you choose your random page?
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Dina wrote: "I'm curious. How do you choose your random page? "A combination of using the page changer at the bottom and playing with the http thing. They don't make it easy. If I could change one thing on Amazon I'd add a browse function. :-(
I mainly find books from goodreads or recommendations from friends. I often just spend ages browsing on amazon too.
Shari-amor wrote: "SBC, Elle's Book Blogs, Bookie Nookie, Moonrise, Horror After Dark. I can't think of any of my paranormal blogs right now."Just saw this! Thanks Shari-amor! *hugs*
*Wonder Woman Hugs*I get great recs from you and the deals you share are wicked cool too ^_^
I look sometimes on fantasticfiction
It's hard to say, I feel like I find book recommendations everywhere :) - right now I think about half of my purchases are made based upon reviews I've read from like-minded friends here on GR. The rest are probably split evenly among browsing at brick & mortar store (or libraries) and browsing my favorite genres on sites like Amazon. Price isn't usually a factor, except at the end of the month lol. Sometimes I do get pissed off when I see a publisher's trying to sell an ebook that clocks in at, say, 75k words for $11.99 (!!) - in those cases I go straight for the cheapest used copy I can find instead.
Sometimes I browse through libraries - friend's recommendations, goodreads, facebook and just seeing what comes up. Sometimes if I find an author I like, I'll look at other books that are similar.
As for me...
If someone says something interesting on a message board, I'll look at their profile to see if they're an author and try to determine if they're self-published. Then I see if they've written anything that might interest me. I'm more open-minded about adding the book to my to-read list if the book is 99 cents or free If it costs more than that, I'm a little more picky.
The other place I look is my update page. I see books when my friends review them, or when they "like" a review one of their friends has written. I also see books when people add them to their to read list, and all that.
I haven't yet looked much into the message boards that are specifically used for promoting books. Maybe I will in the future.
So...what about you?