The Internet is swarming with domains and publishing projects that work well and look nice. They are triumphs of design, but many lack the external editorial supervi-sion usually associated with publishing books or newspapers. Furthermore, similar arguments can clearly be made for publishers, typesetters, proofreaders, librarians, and other established professional groups in the world of printed books. They may not be necessary for the various amateur projects that make up a substantial part of the Internet, but commercial enterprises can hardly live and prosper without their professional skills. Far from threatening the traditional literary professions with extinction, the digitization of texts presents them with a vast, new and networked labor market.
Quality control is as important as ever in publishing.
It can hardly be abolished in the age of digital production. The tradtional competencies of editing, publishing and marketing texts must be supplemented with new skills in desktop publishing, programming, and web design. But at the same time, the traditional skills are as necessary as ever, even if literature should migrate to the worldwide literary web of digital media.