Okay I completely understand the concept of the post and get the sadness and humor all at the same time. In an era where attentiveness and long-form reading seems to be in distinct decline, distinctions within the marketplace losing meaning hurts. I&#x27;m sure customers will eventually adapt though...but this quote:<p>&gt;<i>I wrote this post because I’m tired of vanity titles and success without quality.</i><p>...just makes me laugh, because we&#x27;re talking about an industry that most recently is probably the most guilty of &quot;success without quality&quot; by way of the <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> franchise and all the buckets and buckets of money it made. Self-help being a juggernaut of sales year after year. Obvious derivative slop like <i>Pride and Prejudice &amp; Zombies</i> and the wish-fulfillment nostalgia collage of <i>Ready Player One</i> aren&#x27;t bringing a new enlightenment to society, practically speaking.<p>&gt;<i>I hope my story illustrates that the best marketing tactic you can use for a book is to write a great book that actually sells over the long term.</i><p>Actually, it kind of illustrates the opposite, in that &quot;a book uploaded every five minutes&quot; isn&#x27;t a signal-to-noise ratio that really makes much of any sense. The only reason to write a quality book is vanity at this point.<p>The day that an entity - a startup, a publisher, a legacy firm - can figure out how to intelligently and profitably cull &#x27;good quality&#x27; new artists from the loads and loads of self-publishing writers, musicians, or cinema&#x2F;visual creators out there on their own and bring viewers is the day artists and audiences probably start meeting the monetization in the middle.