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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ed Cha" data-source="post: 1936047" data-attributes="member: 10972">Thank you, Diaglo! I love getting my books reviewed and since they've gotten so much praise from reviewers, I try to promote that all the time. For me, it's really all about spreading the word rather than trying to make it seem like the books are better than they really are. To answer Joe's question, I buy ALL of my books after checking out the reviews here on EN World and elsewhere. If it has bad reviews, I won't buy it. But just because something has good reviews that doesn't mean I'll necessarily buy it either. I try to look at what the reviewers are saying about it and it really helps when the reviews talk about what the book contains and how useful or well-written or well-presented it is. Art matters to me, so I like to read about whether the art is good or not. I also look at text density. There are certain publishers I simply refuse to buy from now because all of the products I've got of theirs had very low text density: a sign that they do not respect the consumer and want to rip you off. I've seen this happen lately on certain products by some publishers who did not do this before and that is very disappointing. If I don't like their art style, I won't buy from them either. Also, some publishers have a great cover and concept, but the execution is just off-center, I won't buy their stuff either. Sometimes though, I will get a book, even if it's just got mediocre reviews, just because I am interested in its subject matter. For example, I really like settlement books (villages, towns, etc), so I try to always pick those up. There are A LOT of boring villages though. I wish the characters were more interesting. Anyhow, I have bought a lot of stuff based pretty much ONLY on good reviews. To name a few: A Magical Medieval Society, Masterwork Maps: Castles & Keeps, Artifacts of the Ages: Rings, etc.</blockquote>

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