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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it is you who are confused. The end result of using a publisher is better quality books; that is of direct benefit to the reader. I don't want to read books full of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, which is what we'd get "raw" from most authors.
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Sounds like the authors aren't doing their job. If they want to pay someone to edit their work, that's up to them. But that's not a justification for me to pay more.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I write physics textbooks. No university in the world is going to use a textbook for a course unless they know that it's been published by a reputable publisher who's subjected the information in it to a proper peer review. How is this process going to work without publishers?
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Don't care. You keep speaking of how things work today. I couldn't care less of what the status quo is.
I am speaking of what things will be tomorrow.
A side note: When I was in college, one of my classes used a textbook that was "in process" (i.e. the instructor was writing it). The class actually helped the instructor write the book.