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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I think we're going to need filters--people who tell us what's worth looking at--for a long time. I don't trust traditional Big 6 publishers to be those filters; they've failed to find me many authors I enjoy. But I can see a future for a company whose sole job is reviewing ebooks and putting a stamp of approval on the ones they like, where they're paid by customer subscriptions: for $10/month, you get a list of 100 books that are worth reading. For $15/month, a list of 50 in the genre of your choice.
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That's horrifying. You're talking about taking a huge industry with thousands upon thousands of people of all different tastes who decide to publish thousands of books on thousands of topics, in competition with one another, and you want to whittle it down to ONE mammoth company to be the arbiter of what's "good"? Sorry, but this is just scary.