Continuing discussion on a previous post...

[aithine]

What would make you take a chance with an unknown small publisher to purchase directly from them? Formats available, no DRM, payment methods, what? (Yes, I have a reason why I'm asking, no I'm not going to share it right at this moment. *vbg*)

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[aithine]

Oh, I get that--sorry, did the blurbs=back cover copy thing for a minute. (I ignore all "this is the best thing I've ever read!" blurbs because I don't know the people saying that at all, even if it's an author I read, because man, some good authors have really crappy reading taste. *g* I trust my friends' comments and reviews much more.)

But really, you should be able to get all the other info (not reviews, I'm with you on that) on the publisher's or author's site, and not have to rely on Amazon or elsewhere.

[wide_worlds_joy]

Yeah, I agree, and I forgot cover blurbs. < sigh > Silly me.

Most times when I look at a publisher's site they only have a couple sentence synopsis and that's all. I do use the cover blurb as a guideline.