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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
What you are proposing is to take from readers the right to make their own book choices and instead to hand that power over to some book commissar who will decide which books and which authors are rewarded.
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I am not sure where this whole book commissar idea came from, but certainly not from me.
My issue isn't really with the knockoffs, their titles are usually funny. I like to browse the independent sections of most bookstores and Amazon's is filled with all sorts of garbage. Certainly Amazon has been and continues to work on reducing the amount of garbage, the signal to noise ratio and all that. I just think that taking away the option for the garbage purveyors to make any money would disincentive them to produce garbage in the first place.
The garbage could still be uploaded and downloaded of course, freedom of speech and all that, but if someone downloads two texts, and finds one of them to be garbage, only spending a minute or two reading it, while spending a few hours reading the other one, it is quite obvious which creator should be compensated.