ARTICLE: Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

“Amazon blew the doors off the heavily curated literary world. No longer was access to the marketplace determined by publishers, booksellers or reviewers. Even the most marginal books were suddenly available to everyone everywhere. Breaking down the doors, however, also let in people who did not appear to care about the quality of what they sell.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/technology/amazon-orwell-1984.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage