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Harry, I have downloaded some of your books and I appreciate the work you out into them. Have you checked out any of the Project Gutenberg titles from the Distributed Proofreaders team? Those allegedly get three passes by three sets of eyes per page. If you have seen them, has their quality been good?
This whole discussion reminds me of what they were saying about television years ago. In the old days, everyone watched the big 3 networks and there was water cooler discussion at work the next day based on what people had seen. Now, with the proliferation of specialty channels, I could spend all my TV time on stuff nobody else at work cares about---for instance, I enjoy a lot of the sci-fi stuff and that has its own channel now, and my boyfriend enjoys animated shows, and that has its own channel, and my boss enjoys sports programs and so on. We all could have watched TV last night and seen completely different things. And that's *good* for business because it is allowing programming that might not have found an audience on the big 3 networks to find an audience through appropriate venues. The big 3 might consider 20 million viewers to be success; the biggest Canadian hit of all time was Canadian Idol and it had about 2.5 million---that was huge here. Different markets, different audiences, different distribution channel. Where is the harm?
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