publisher:
Noun
A person or company that prepares and issues books, journals, music, or other works for sale.
You are not only preparing [publishing] it. You are creating it, marketing it, and billing for it.
Are you seriously going to try to bullshit us here? You are trying to shift blame regarding the efficacy of these products onto the authors (like Burt Goldman, "the 85-year-old man who jumps across universes" as your sales page puts it), which is obviously one of the very reasons you license authors to be the face of each of these products (the other reason is because people would rather trust personalities instead of companies).
If you really cared about "reaching a billion people with enlightened ideas" you would not be selling this BS...
> create a neutral evaluation of the goods these rivaling organisations produce
Well... They mostly facilitate the evaluation of the goods. The evaluation itself is still done by scientists and scholars that are not employed by the publishers.
The parent makes the point that one should use a reputable publisher. I'm arguing that publishers generally considered reputable aren't particularly different from those that are not (as the parent to that correctly notes, with fewer examples). What do you think isn't relevant?
And what is it that you publish that helps humanity?
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