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For centuries, manufacturing a book has always required the expertise of an editor. Any author wishing to be published and displayed in bookstores had to follow the course that the biggest publishing houses had designed for the last hundred years. But with the arrival of the web in the nineties, new editorial circuits such as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Amazon’s self-publishing platform, have emerged, allowing authors to publish themselves. Any writers today can, within a few clicks, publish their book without resorting to the printing house’s predetermined pathway. Why should authors wait for weeks or even months for feedback from an editor—which was a must until recently—when they can publish their own book, in just a few moments, in total autonomy on the internet?