If you can’t answer those questions here, would you include them in a future post, please?
Thank you.

Blessings ~

It seems like some kind of a review board might be set up to eliminate the worst of the worst. Or, in a more positive way, to commend books with decent content and structure.

Another option would be for Amazon or any other book-selling service to apply a set of standards, minimal perhaps but still standards, to all books before they are available to the public.

Of course, with an appropriate name for the “publisher,” nobody can tell if a book is self-published or not just by looking at it. A cure for that might be to form to produce books for pay. That group would lend its seal of approval and refuse to accept those who do not meet basic standards. The problem is that another group that has no standards will walk away with the profits from selling poor-quality books at low prices.

The final solution is branding. Develop a self-publishing moniker and logo and apply it only to books you handle that meet your standard. Advertise and promote your brand as sign of quality. Eventually, “good” books will rise to the top.

I also am glad that you continue to encourage people to write real books not just E books. I actually wrote an E book and sold less than 10 copies while my real book is above 400. Keep up the encouragement because we need it!