[wiredfool]

A publisher has a certain amount of bandwidth. They can manage to acquire, edit, copyedit, promote, ship, etc a certain number of books and authors per year, per editor. They acquire books that fit with the marketing direction of their imprint. There's a lot of good stuff coming out. But good stuff takes curation and nurturing to get over the hump of good enough to Really Damn Good. Amazon is not going to do that.

Editing is important. Filters are a damn useful invention. I could be talking about websites, music, or books.