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Finding, filtering, and presenting the best of content from a particular perspective has been a profession for a while-- that's what editors are supposed to be doing for us, whether they are editors of newspapers, book lines, or music recording companies (though I suppose they have a different title there). I think it's a service worth paying for, too. We often discuss how content creators should be compensated for their work in the digital era, but this is another group whose circumstances are being rapidly altered by the new technology, but whose services are still needed. I'm hoping to see more independent publishers online that recreate the editorial lines of years ago, when one could buy books in a particular publishing line with some confidence that the quality and style would be reliably consistent with what had been published before, and the compensation went mostly to the author and editor, rather than to nameless, faceless "investors" somewhere.
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