Algorithmic Publishing Is Not Self-Publishing: Benchmarks is a theoretical paper by Lee Sharks, deposited 16 June 2026 at 19,314 characters as EA-SEI-ALGPUB-BENCHMARKS-01 v1.1, in Machine-Mediated Reception Studies.
Its title states a category dispute. Self-publishing describes an author bypassing a gatekeeper to reach readers directly; algorithmic publishing describes composition and distribution mediated by systems that select, rank, summarise and recompose — a different relation to the reader entirely, in which the intermediary is not absent but invisible.
The paper supplies benchmarks, which is what converts the distinction from a definitional preference into a testable one: if the two practices differ, measurable differences follow. It belongs to the MMRS programme founded at #1423, and to the archive's broader disambiguation strategy of separating its terms from adjacent ones that would otherwise absorb them.