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The problem isn't the authors. The authors are the good guys. I like the authors. I have to believe that the authors want me to read their books.
I want to enter into the "standard contract" with the authors, which is basically:
1. You: write good books
2. Me: read and enjoy your books, and pay you the compliment of caring about your characters and substituting, albeit briefly, the fictional reality you've lovingly crafted for my own.
The publisher, in this instance, has chosen to stand in the way of this and ridicule anyone thinking they'd be able to perform section 2 of the contract.
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