I bought a John Locke book once just because of the 99 cent price. John Locke is the pseudonym of the author behind most of the 99 cent Kindle top 20 bestseller

I bought a John Locke book once just because of the 99 cent price. John Locke is the pseudonym of the author behind most of the 99 cent Kindle top 20 bestsellers, and probably one of the few that makes 6 figure sales this way. I read the entire novel hoping that the ending would make up for everything, and in the end I just felt like that was a massive waste of my time and 99 cents. It was a mystery/thriller that ended up being so bad that I was laughing the whole time at the absurdity of everything going on. It was rather well edited, unlike most of the indie and 99 cent crowd, which was all it has going for it. And this book and many others have nearly the same rating by just as many customers as a traditionally published 1000 page behemoth like The Wise Man's Fear, which was (to me) worth every penny of the $15 ebook price and many, many hours spent reading. I love seeing markets being revolutionized and people self-publishing easily, but the state of 99 cent ebooks today feels to me as bad as an iOS App Store with all 99 cent fart apps as bestsellers would feel. There isn't much quality or thought put into most of these, and the Angry Birds and Tiny Wings of the ebook world are few and far in between. I can only wait and hope to see improvement, instead of seeing more drivel being spewed out by the current set of bestselling 99 cent authors all celebrating their six figure sales of their godawful books.