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Originally Posted by barryem
I wonder if this isn't a problem more in theory than in fact.
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It's often enough a problem in fact, I assure you. Not insurmountable and sometimes very minor, but real enough to discuss.
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I do agree that, at least in principle, having a gatekeeper seems like a good idea. But these days with so many resources available to find good books I'm not sure there's a lot of practical need for someone to cull them and I think there's so many benefits from letting people publish whatever they want that I like things the way they are. Ultimately readers are the only ones qualified pick what we want to read.
Barry
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It's those resources I want to hear more about.
Cuz "let anyone publish anything" has resulted, in fact, in just about anyone publishing just about anything, and "readers are the only ones qualified to pick" can be an overwhelming, frustrating and wasteful endeavor.
Some tools, if not a guide, are not counter to the new order.