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Originally Posted by Xenophon
The first and most important service provided (to us end-users -- readers) by publishers is that of filtering for quality.
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You are extremely mistaken if you think that Web 2.0 cannot provide us with that filtering of quality.
I much prefer my filter be provided by a web 2.0 tool taking advantage of the wisdom of all online users, rather then the filter being by some filthy rich publisher from his golf cart smoking his cigars.
Publishers only care about profit. They turn good books into commercial crap. They need to completely disappear, be exterminated.
When I download an ebook, I want 100% OF THE PROFITS going in the pocket of the author. Publishers taking 75% of my ebook money or tax dollars for free ebook downloads intended to the author, publishers need to die.
There is absolutely nothing that a publisher can do which Google Books and other free ebook repositories cannot do. Web 2.0 is the new publisher, and THAT ONE SHALL NOT be controlled by any filthy publishing corporation. Go away.