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Originally Posted by MarciaCat
An author friend of mine posted a link on twitter to an article at Good E-Reader about this subject; after reading it I'm inclined to believe that moonshot is the (dare I say it?) author of the article. |
You could be right that Michael Kozlowski is moonshot.
There are several arguments made in this thread that "author" does not mean anything with regard to status. These arguments (including some by myself) are used in this article, some almost verbatim. The article tries to point out that if "too many people" / self-publishers are using the term "author", the value of the word will diminish.
I call bullshit. It's the other way around. Everybody can use the word "author" *because* it has no intrinsic value.
edit: see the last paragraph of the article. It is an almost exact copy of one of my own posts here. The words "Some people will say..." actually link to said post, where I point out that drawing a line in the sand to define authors is useless; it can't be done because everybody has different opinions on what exactly an author is.
The poster of that article uses that post out of context to cement his opinion that the the word "author" has lost or is losing it's status, while I made that post trying to point out that the word "author" has no status to begin with.