Joij21
🔥Deny, Defend, Depose!🔥
I mean, I think Amazon has been a huge catastrophe for the world, so I really just think you're proving my point here. The wasteful supply networks that allow huge piles of garbage to be dumped in the first world are not worth the books you can pay $0.99 to "own" on a device that won't last ten years anyway (and fritters away even more precious rare earths.)
Yes but people were complaining of how the old system of publishers was corrupt, and stingy, and you needed to be hooked up with the right connections for it to even be seen by a publisher, and yada yada yada.
At least Amazon solved that problem just as a consequence now you get to swim through a sea of garbage since after all that's just a natural consequence of what will happen if you allow everyone to easily publish books since most people are utterly crap at writing books.
Under socialism, without any entrepreneurship, you'd go to a library and pick one of thousands of books, many of which have only been printed a few times, because the authors wanted to and waited in line like everyone else.
But see that's just a return to the old publisher method, but instead of capitalist publishers they're socialist publishers.
So people would then complain again about how there's limited space in the libraries and how you need to know a local party official and do something special to her/him to get your work in a library. Even claiming there's too much censorship like back in the old capitalist publisher days!
To me it's either a traditional publisher system (capitalist or socialist your choice) which will inevitably have bias, favoritism, and stinginess, plus possible censorship. Or some kind of digital distribution system where anything goes, but will inevitably have poor quality control but lacks the favoritism, and stinginess.