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I agree that the Web provides similar mechanisms that are able to filter book submissions. We could easily imagine, books released for free by amateur authors without any selection, and the 1% that would be successfull could then be printed etc... I agree that the filtering is important, but the main problem is that there's also niches that publishers can't possibily fulfill with such a system. With no retail cost, e-books should be the new way to provide much more content than what's already available. Let the users decide what's best suited for them, and if you still want experts reading and selecting the right book, you could still do this but online. MP3 blog are getting more and more popular, I believe we'll soon see e-book blogs and people trading their creations on the web, that you'll be able to read on your e-ink devices.
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