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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Stone, I'm getting really tired of this. We were having an interesting and productive discussion before you jumped in. I was actually enjoying your absence. We've heard your "the publishers are always right, and you pathetic little consumers should just thank us for allowing you to pay inflated prices for whatever we choose to sell you" line time and time again, and it makes no more sense this time.
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For example, you keep using the term "digerati" to refer to those who disagree with you under the assumption that the people you're talking to will believe that there is some sort of privileged "upper class" and resent those people. I have to assume that was somewhere in some publisher's talking points ... "refer to your opponents as 'digerati' so the silent majority who resents those people will be on your side." Except it doesn't work that way, not on MobileRead. Nobody here pretends to be any kind of technical upper class -- not even me, and I'm the resident grouch. There's no "silent majority" to feel oppressed by those self-entitled aristocrats, either. We're all just people who like ebooks, and your attempts at insulting me and others, and at stirring up what I can only see as a strange sort of class warfare, are not only falling flat, they're getting really annoying. So knock it off and play nice. Tell your bosses "that doesn't work here, MR is different" and discuss matters like everyone else does ... sans insults.
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Yeah. Me too. I finally googled digerati because I'd never, ever heard the word before stonetools started using it. And I'm the kind of guy that never uses the e-reader dictionary because I've got a pretty good vocab.
And to top that off, I'm even an IT worker (albeit in an outdated computer technology you've probably not heard of) with a minor in computational mathematics. And I'd never heard the term before. Maybe that means I am a digerati, and I just don't understand that. lol.
And you know what? I don't like it. I don't like being called digerati. I find it insulting. Like calling me "Lord". How about just calling us
senatores or
equites (Roman terms for political and economic elites). Maybe Bourgeoise? Does that make us sound upper class and snooty enough?
grrr
As far as Mr. Jordan, I'm sorry people aren't paying for your book. Would you be so angry if those 100 people or whatever were reading your book at the library for free?