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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Yeah, because Amazon does such an amazingly good job of:
- selecting books which are worthy of publication
- editing books so that they have a consistent style / voice
- fact-checking
- clearing copyrights and usages
- designing beautiful text pages
- typesetting beautiful text pages
- re-drawing images so that they represent what the author actually wanted
- hiring illustrators and photographers to make nice covers
Please, I don't see how anyone could describe a descent to all things being self-published as desirable in any way, shape, manner or form.
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Exactly. Many great works of literature only exist because they were commissioned by publishers or the publishers served as motivators and critics for the authors.
Well, I was really looking forward to watching "The Third Man" and Fritz Lang's "M" again, but I have been persuaded in this thread that I should rather watch peoples' smartphone cat videos on youtube. So much better than those amateurish works in black and white...
