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Maybe if reviewers were payed in a transparent way from subscriptions of book-buyers only it wouldn't be so bad. It seems like this type of system would be highly prone to conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers.
People keep saying things to me like "And if you get enough good reviews for your ebooks, you can take this data to traditional publishers to really get published." This draws a question mark in my mind. How can these people be so sure that there will be traditional publishers or stores to buy paper books in, say, five years?
I suspect that the publishing industry is currently in the inescapable grasp of Moore's Law.
Let's imagine all the corollaries: the music industry and mp3s; horse and buggies and the model T; boat travel and air travel; theatre and television and of course brick and mortar and e-commerce. How many historical examples are needed to convince people of these trends?
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