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The digital book age promises to deliver an endless assortment of titles with the click of a mouse but also portends to destroy the economic foundation that supports a large class of writers known as midlist authors, the triple-A minor league players of publishing.
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Seems like the lost art of browsing is his chief concern:
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Consider some of the common ways books by lesser-known authors are sold everyday in a store:
Examining the history section of a store, a customer is drawn to a book by its eye-catching cover;
Picking up a book by a popular author from a table, a customer is intrigued by a novel in an adjacent stack;
Approaching the cash register, a customer decides to get one additional book after reading a sticky note that says "staff favorite," one of the many ways booksellers "hand-sell" a promising title.
As of yet, there is no digital substitute to this serendipitous manner of bringing readers and writers together.
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