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Originally Posted by moonshot
If you paid money to see a 'singer' billed as the next Diana Ross and all she could do was make a sound not much better than your neighbours cat, you might want your money back; feeling that the word singer was misleading.
No different from someone putting words onto paper and selling the story as a download.
At least who ever hired the singer has a responsibility in this. So unless the self published 'author' is giving their book away for free, who is vetting these books to make sure that they reach a minimum standard.
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You're assigning an aspect of value to the word author that it doesn't inherently possess. The word author, in and of itself, does not carry any implication of quality. Nor should it.
In the above example, you don't have any reason to complain because she used the word "singer". You might feel you have the right to complain because she was called "the next Diana Ross", but that's a personal judgment. Who gets to decide what a "good" singer is?
No one is vetting them; the word author does not carry that implication.