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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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No, I want to whittle it down to dozens of competing companies, who have different standards of "good," that they pitch to their target demographic customers.
One company focuses on science fiction only... for $10/month, you get a list of 100 sci-fi ebooks published in the last month that fit their standards of quality sci-fi. For an extra $5/month, you get less books, but more filtering: you only get space opera, or romantic sci-fi, or mysteries in sci-fi settings, or horror-esque stories, or so on.
Another company does romances. Another does YA novels. Another does "novels from 1st person POV." Another does nonfiction, with subgenres politics, health, technology, and self-help. And so on.
I'm not thinking of a single company; I'm pondering an industry in recommendations to replace the current publisher's name-stamp on the side of a book.