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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Of course, if your books are gritty westerns and buyers complain that the cover was misleading, that's your problem. (Insist that the covers were an abstract representation of the content. Get a third-year philosophy student to provide the explanation; offer him credit as a "literary analyst.")
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"Community standards", anyone?
Once upon a time, porn was problematic, and the buzzwords were "redeeming social value", so the porn houses would hire someone entitled to put PhD after their name to write an introductory essay explaining the redeeming social value of the work. It was nonsense, of course, and the essays were often nearly as badly written as the work they introduced, but they had that essay, and the porn house could point at it and say "Not porn,
art! See? A PhD says so!"
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Dennis