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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Sorry, but the world we live in is the one where if somebody writes a book they don't need the blessing of a glass house priesthood of print to put it before readers and, maybe, get it to sell.
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They also don't need to spend time refining it, polishing it, editing it.
Undoubtedly some new gems will appear that might have been missed by traditional publishing. Also undoubtedly a whole load of trash that just isn't ready to be published will also appear.
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A world where the choice whether that book sells or not is up to the buyer.
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But each individual buyer will have to spend the time to read the book before finding out if it was worth reading or not.
Hence the utility of filtering services, whether publishers, book reviewers, book clubs, etc... to highlight the ones that are worth reading.
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Wise publishers--and they do exist--realize that their chief role in this new world is *promotion* of their clients' product; helping the creators sell more with their aid than they would without it. In the new world publishers can be consultants, marketers, even--if they're really good--kingmakers. If they're not, they can just as easily be irrelevant. In the new world publishers work for the creators, not the other way around.
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Don't we already have this? It is called vanity publishing.