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Originally Posted by rhadin
There is no question that anyone who wants to write and publish should be free to do so IF we have a way to build a consensus as to what newly published work is great literature. As it stands now, in the absence of traditional publishers we have no way to build that consensus. The idea that the Internet community can do it by word of mouth (or word of twittering) is ludicrous -- at least today.
I encourage those interested in the subject to read the articles at An American Editor and express their views.
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That makes no sense. A general consensus from interested people can't make a consensus? That would certainly appear to be a ludicrous statement. You are implying that there exists some nebulous group of people not using twitter that are much, much smarter than the rest of us, and able to do so? That is definitely ludicrous.
So what, the only people that can do it are old white American luddites that write each other notes in pen and ink delivered by peasants on bicycles or something along those lines?