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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
^I'll have to disagree with the selling point. Most classics sold well may have been due to the fact that the competition within the book market was less. The number of writers actually getting a book published in the 1850s was probably about a thousandth the number getting a book published today.
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Yes, there were less published authors, but it doesn't matter. Some books sold well, but faded away. Other books sold well, and continued to sell and be read for decades. Some books, didn't sell, no one wanted to read them, so they disappeared, barely leaving a ripple. But great books that didn't sell, that's uncommon. That a book sells is by no means an indication that it is a bad book.
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I picked up several pieces of garbage off my street the other day. I didn't get paid.
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Sure, but the streets would be filthy if they were only cleaned by volunteers.