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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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But that does not mean that his functionality must forever be implemented exactly as it is today.
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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?
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The peer review can be implemented in other ways. For example there is a movement for academic papers to try to publish first (electronically) and peer review afterwards.