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I think that the problem is one of curation. Amazon is bad at proper curation. I see too much dreck if I go to just browse the Kindle site. On the other hand if I look at Kobo they are careful to show off trad pub bestsellers and critically well received literature.
Many of you seem to not care about discovery through browsing. I care. Many of my favorite novels and authors come from browsing through bookstores. We should be entitled to that kind of discovery with online stores. I don't care if there are mountains of poorly written self published works *as long as I don't have to see them.*
In the realm of games, Steam is working to a new UI which will hide garbage so that you can still seek it out but it's not rammed down your throat. That is what Amazon should strive for. I don't think self published works should be killed, I just think that they should not be promoted the way that they currently are.
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