Darn, I missed this post up until now. My apologies for the delay.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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Originally Posted by Ankh
There is a (commercially) limited interest for these titles, hence limited demand for tools to automate/support such a job...
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Here's something I've noticed on Mobile Read:-- Many of us seem to feel our own personal tastes are normative, and that a consensus on our favorite internet forums can answer any question re broad public opinion. |
When I said "commercially limited" I really thought of the percentage of publishing profits generated by poetry sales. It was not a projection of my taste, just a standard logical fallacy, any generalization is dangerous. Now that it was called to my attention, I can not even find any data to support what I believed was "a common knowledge", that novels, in general, generate more sales than poetry or short story collections.
The problem, if there is one, is not that Ankh is putting poetry down. Sorry for misunderstanding, I should have been more precise.