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As an author myself, I suspect that the average reader doesn't appreciate the teremendous amount of work that a publisher does before a book appears on the shelves in your local bookstore. As Xenophon says, the average book submitted to a publisher is, to put it frankly, complete crap. Even those which are worth publishing generally need a huge amount of work to make them publishable.
If we just got "raw" books directly then believe me, the few "gems" would be completely hidden by the torrent of garbage.
We need publishers.
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