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Agreed Richard, I look at some industries that way definetly authors. Wether the author is Tom Clancy or Drew Berquist its all the same to me, where they differ is in their writting ability. I am generally not willing to pay additional for a well written novel becuase i have found zero correlation between price and quality (and I did a scientific study here, took every book I own electronic or dead wood and recorded the price and assigned a subjective number to indicate the writting ability of the author). T Test to examine the correlation between the two and the answer was 0. I then did other inferential statistics to look into the issue further and there was no relationship what so ever. No bell curve simply a flat line.
Its also interesting to look further to see that Spiers is professionally a computer programmer. I wonder what this discussion would be like if someone joined in that knows something about book publishing.
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