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This was solved in past by publishing editors, bookstore owners/purchasers, and even librarians. It's cool "we have scaled" to streamline the publishing direct
by gedy 1y ago
This was solved in past by publishing editors, bookstore owners/purchasers, and even librarians.
It's cool "we have scaled" to streamline the publishing direct to readers, but maybe profitable sellers like Amazon should like pay humans to review and filter out generated crap?
- quesera 1y agoIt turns out that when you give the power of distribution to ordinary humans, you get a lot of crap. Blogs, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit. HN. USENET. Printing press. Papyrus. :) Third parties are rightly derided as parasitic, but they also have a useful role. Imprints, publishers, media corporations, record labels, etc ... the blessing of the brand used to mean something. I'm split on whether we've lost more than we've gained, though. Some days I'm ready to delete the Internet.
- gedy 1y agoYes I suppose in this case, I'm leaning on Amazon to be some arbiter of quality vs unfiltered output from borderline scammers.