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Trad publishers are not needed if you want not a gatekeeper, someone to prevent books from ever being published, but simply a filter to help you separate out good books from bad. Without the trad publishers all you would need is websites, possibly a lot of websites and some of them would be the 6 current major publishers, who would post lists of recommended new releases. People would find and gravitate to the sites whose recommendations best matched their tastes. Just like now a lot of people regularly check the NY Times Bestseller lists when bookshopping. I check some of my favorite reviewers in Locus magazine and Romantic times. I don't need a stinking gatekeeper just good reviews.
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