How is the sheer amount of crap being put out by authors with a Macbook Pro and a credit line with Starbucks any worse than the current, more traditional industry (sans the obligatory submission of material to an editor and the like)?
Granted, there is more shoveling going on simply because more people can use the power of the internet to pop out whatever they like, but the crap-to-gold ratio doesn't seem all that different from regular book publishing.
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