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Originally Posted by Xenophon
The big things that a publisher gives me in the electronic world are these: - A filter I can trust.
- A mechanism for getting payments to the authors.
And if you don't think that first item is important, go read the slush pile at any publisher! I guarantee that you'll need mental floss within minutes. |
Which can be replaced by customer reviews.
Publishers (for the most part) have a very poor record of filtering for good content.
And we don't need them to get payments to the authors. They are unnecessary middlemen for that.