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Originally Posted by rlauzon
We've been down this discussion before.
As a reader, none of those things mean anything to me.
You are confusing value to the author versus value to the reader. As a reader, none of those things justify paying a publisher.
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No, it is you who are confused. The end result of using a publisher is better quality books; that is of direct benefit to the reader. I don't want to read books full of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, which is what we'd get "raw" from most authors.
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The internet also makes alternatives to publishers for this too. Alternatives that cost far less.
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I write physics textbooks. No university in the world is going to use a textbook for a course unless they know that it's been published by a reputable publisher who's subjected the information in it to a proper peer review. How is this process going to work without publishers?