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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I thought Robert McCrum's Guardian article presented an excellent slice of hard reality.
As for the article advocating that the government subsidize literature to make up for declining advances, I missed that.
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No one has said that the article did say that. I brought it up because I wanted to explore what the alternative would be to the current system which has led to the current situation. Also Pangolin in his/her response mentioned paying more to support more literary works. I was thinking aloud about how that would work in practice.
But I think I agree with you in essence - the article is not really advocating anything, it's just describing a change that has taken place - publishing boomed in 1980s causing high advances to become common, that has now declined.
By the way, although I made up the CSLA for the purposes of discussion I'm sure such organisations exist. I know that in the UK and other countries there are taxed-funded as well as charitable bodies that give subsidies to the arts in general so I'm sure there are ones that deal with the literary world.