This will work for a little while but this can't go on indefinitely: no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books.

We should probably work on developing standards for what we want in a book instead of clinging to a losing position.

fy20 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd guess some publishers just need to set a hard stance against clearly AI generated work, and have more in-depth reviews before publishing.

On the other hand, it means the age of self-publishing was short lived and is effectively dead now.

	▲	pluralmonad 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think self publishing is dead. But it probably is an end to grabbing new books from unfamiliar names. So self publishing will be harder, since it will take grinding to build human rep, but certainly not dead.

not_the_fda 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use time as a filter. There is more good stuff to read than time to read it. I have no need for slop.

geraneum 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books

This is... satire, right? right?

	▲	human305893 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My backlog of pre 2020 fiction that I want to read is huge, so I don't have to worry about it. Non-fiction is a pain. I mostly by these for my kid (Things like dinosaur encyclopedias etc), so I stick to university press, but I have no idea if it's getting through there but I wouldn't be surprised.