# Bookbub: The free ones are always crap.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookbub-the-free-ones-are-always-crap/853106>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookbub-the-free-ones-are-always-crap/853106 "2020-05-04T04:45:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookbub-the-free-ones-are-always-crap/853106/1 "2020-05-04T04:45:25Z")

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Prove me wrong. Anybody had a good experience with a free Bookbub offering?

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**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookbub-the-free-ones-are-always-crap/853106/2 "2020-05-04T13:11:34Z")

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Nope.

I stopped subscribing to them ages ago but they still send me come-ons.

My theory is that most of their offerings are from first time self published writers and it’s a way for them to “get their name/work out there” no matter how good or bad it may be.

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookbub-the-free-ones-are-always-crap/853106/3 "2020-05-04T17:39:48Z")

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Bookbub introduced me to Heide Goody and Iain Grant, authors of [_Clovenhoof_](https://smile.amazon.com/Clovenhoof/dp/B07XFRTWMD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3113821C16YF4&dchild=1&keywords=clovenhoof&qid=1588613619&s=digital-text&sprefix=clovenhoof%2Caps%2C221&sr=1-1) wherein Satan is fired for incompetence and exiled to Birmingham.

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> Heaven, Hell, and the city of Birmingham collide in a story that features murder, heavy metal, cannibalism, armed robbers, devious old ladies, Satanists who live with their mums, gentlemen of limited stature, dead vicars, petty archangels, flamethrowers, sex dolls, a blood-soaked school assembly, and way too much alcohol.

I’ve bought the rest of the series.