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Originally Posted by plib
Scalzi's quote is just Mom and Apple Pie pablum. It's not news to anyone sensible. If he thinks that the end of agency pricing (i.e. price fixing to protect the incomes of publishers who want to remain firmly wedded to the 1950s) will mean the "end of literature as we know it" then I suppose he's entitled to express that opinion. If he chooses to ignore the fact that there were centuries of "quality nonfiction and biography" before the BPH came into existence, then I'm entitled to give that opinion the significance I think it deserves.
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I am willing to bet that you can't think of 10 quality nonfiction and biography titles that came out prior to the BPHs. I'm quite certain that you can't find 10 such titles on Baen or Smashwords .
Scalzi's point was that there are no angels on ANY side of this, and you are foolish for thinking anyone of them on on "your" side. They are all on their OWN side and don't you forget it.