Akayoshi's Contrarian Compendium of Cool Indies
Description:
The author writes, “This book is meant as straightforward publicity for the books I review, and for my own e-books on American history. The e-book phenomenon is a great democratizer, bypassing the gatekeepers, opening up literary creation to non-professionals and bringing in new perspectives.
"Granted, this democratization is usually for the worse. That’s the way it is when gatekeepers are bypassed, when the masses are unshackled, when writers are “unencumbered” by the restrictions of formal training. But every once in a while, it's for the better. Akayoshi’s tries to find cases of for-the-better, those works that would have sunk into oblivion without the revolution created by affordable e-readers, but may find long life and appreciation with it.”
"Granted, this democratization is usually for the worse. That’s the way it is when gatekeepers are bypassed, when the masses are unshackled, when writers are “unencumbered” by the restrictions of formal training. But every once in a while, it's for the better. Akayoshi’s tries to find cases of for-the-better, those works that would have sunk into oblivion without the revolution created by affordable e-readers, but may find long life and appreciation with it.”
