I think it's an old problem in a new wrapper. As long as there have been publishers there have been those who would publish anything for the right price (vanity and/or subsudy publishing and so forth). It's just become easier to do it than in the past due to the new medium is all. You can wash garbage all you want but all you will have is clean garbage and if a publisher will print anything no matter what the quality it does become harder for everyone else to find the gem among the garbage.
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