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Originally Posted by Xenophon
Sigh...
... "choosing books that are 'good enough' (along some particular axes of measurement) to be published as a Baen/Tor/Signet/Ace/HBJ/Whomever book." It's called selection, filtering, and branding.
Xenophon
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Xenophon,
While I agree that digging the gold out of the dirt for the rest of us is a worthwhile service, I think that the web now provides other mechanisms that serve the same purpose.
Look at the blogosphere for example. There are millions of blogs out there, there's no editor, and some of them rise to fame and serve thousands of visitors daily, while others remain obscure.
I find new blogs to read by following links from blogs I already read and like. This way you rely on people who's opinions you value or who's tastes you share, to introduce you to new content.
I see no reason why a similar mechanism can't grow up around books. In fact, I already select many books to buy based on other people's reviews on amazon.com, which amounts to about the same thing.