I posted this article yesterday in my company's book club channel Also yesterday I went out for some beers with a friend who has recently completed a science fiction trilogy, result of years of work, self-publishing it and selling a few thousand copies. It's pretty good stuff and definitely a life achievement! Anyway we discussed that article. He said that things got really bad in between his first book 6 years ago and third one just now, the amount of self-published slop that's denial-of-servicing everyone is just humongous. He said there are people publishing 50 books a year! 50! I mean, that's a below lifetime's output for a most really good writers! As he put in "5 dollars in compute to make a garbage book to publish on amazon to produce 30 bucks of revenue from unsuspecting half a dozen people is worth the squeeze so scammers/sloppers do it". That's why we can't have nice things.