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Originally Posted by Doug Huffman
Normative and prescriptive statements, characterized by would/should/could, have no intrinsic truth/value, cannot be falsified and are not 'scientific'.
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Feel free to contact the publishers and retailers and ask them whether or not they pay attention to consumer inquiries. Go ahead, I'll wait.
I used the less definitive "should" instead of "will" because I'm offering an opinion, not presenting a scientific statement -- though clearly I'm viewing my opinion as a reasonable one. Nor do I feel a strong requirement for all my utterances to be definitively falsifiable, unless I'm specifically discussing facts or scientific propositions.
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Originally Posted by Doug Huffman
I have been an elected official. Unsolicited e-mails are deleted. Consensus is leadership dismissed.
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Perhaps this is no longer why you are an elected official?
Mind you, I don't expect my senator to ask "how high?" when I send an email request for him/her to jump. However, good elected officials do, in fact, keep track of "unsolicited" communications, as one way of keeping track of what their constituents expect and/or want.
Plus, if they're going to ignore customer emails, they're just as likely to ignore snail-mail requests. So, you might as well save yourself a stamp. Since none of these activities require significant efforts, the amount of potentially wasted effort is so minuscule, I see little harm in clicking the link and sending an email.