View Single Post
Old 04-20-2012, 12:57 PM   #43
Giggleton
Banned
Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Giggleton ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,687
Karma: 4368191
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Oregon
Device: Kindle3
Quote:
Originally Posted by QuantumIguana View Post
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.
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.

Last edited by Giggleton; 04-20-2012 at 01:00 PM.
Giggleton is offline   Reply With Quote