>And while many do, the most popular and successful music still comes from major labels.
Isn't that just the result of marketing? Rich Men North of Richmond just came out of nowhere and went organically viral.
>And while many do put out some great stuff, the overwhelming majority of books that don't come from major publishers are shovelware.
How would you know? This is the "you don't know what you don't know" problem. Nobody has read all the books there, it's mathematically impossible I think.
>As shitty of a curator as Hollywood might be, for most people there is value-add in curation.
Mass appeal is lowest common denominator targeting, not value itself. Popularity is only correlated with quality.
Isn't that just the result of marketing? Rich Men North of Richmond just came out of nowhere and went organically viral.
>And while many do put out some great stuff, the overwhelming majority of books that don't come from major publishers are shovelware.
How would you know? This is the "you don't know what you don't know" problem. Nobody has read all the books there, it's mathematically impossible I think.
>As shitty of a curator as Hollywood might be, for most people there is value-add in curation.
Mass appeal is lowest common denominator targeting, not value itself. Popularity is only correlated with quality.