The dude that made that article is seriously upset at Amazon. He might've ordered something from Amazon and had bad service, since the article is mostly biased.
Some books have it rough, I agree. For example, Montessori's Absorbent Mind in the Kindle section has some flaws. There is also this uncut gem:
http://www.amazon.com/Freud-Richard-...ud+philosopher
Freud + Philosopher = top lel
I'm sure there are other "books" such as this fine piece of pseudo-intellectual crap, yet in general, it does give good options for those who want to read and have an easy, mainstream, accessible source.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yes, but without them, do you not think you would easily adapt? You would still have your favorite authors, you would still have the classics, and you would still have an active word-of-mouth (and online review/recommendation) system that anyone new and noteworthy would surely still bubble up through to get your attention. People will always hype what they think are good books... whether it's readers or publishers doing so.
People buy from traditional publishers because they have always bought from traditional publishers.
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Sometimes the publishers have really good editors/translators. I remember buiying a book from this 3-star publisher. The book seemed ok but then I was given another copy from another publisher. Right off the bat I thought something was wrong because both books were considerably different, both physical size and wording. The first book was quite slimmer than the other, and it had choppy editing. The second was a more robust, clean shaped book.
I later found out that the second book was from this argentine-based publisher that has a reputation of providing the best books: translations are nearly flawless and on-spot with the original transcript, editing was clean and loyal to the original, and everything was just round-up better looking.
It really depends on how you look at it. Specially when it comes to translated books, publishers are REALLY needed.