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Originally Posted by HarryT
because what you're objecting to is the traditional system of exclusive book distribution contracts, not copyright.
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its both
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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's why, unfortunately, most independently-published books are, to be brutally honest, complete garbage.
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Here I would mostly disagree. From the songs of David Rovics to the books published via Samizdat (literally "self-publishing" in Russian) I think that there is a lot of valuable stuff out there. Now, just like with ALL of the Internet, most of it is, as you say, complete garbage. But that is due to the quantity and ease-of-access nature of the Internet, not to any inherent limitations of the talents of free publishing authors. Printed newspapers, traditional TV stations, encyclopedias and so many other forms of corporate information distribution have one after the other hit the dust while claiming that what was replacing them was garbage, but they missed the point that in that garbage there was a lot of very good stuff and that folks were becoming savvy about finding it.
Besides, most of what I see in libraries (and music stores!) at least here in the USA is also complete garbage anyway
