Great. So how do we go about having a label applied that ONLY identifies books/authors who write books that fail to meet the level of "structural integrity" deemed appropriate by ... the Committee for Standards in Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation? And would Cormac McCarthy make the cut?
Or are we coming full circle to the tired old idea that only trad-published authors' books could possibly meet the fictitious committee's exacting standards? Meaning that all others will be initially assumed to be inferior until such time as they're deemed not inferior (by an unbiased third-party).
This is pointless. There can't BE a label that would include ONLY "structurally sound" books while excluding ONLY those structurally unsound. To suggest there could be only proves someone's willingness to throw babies out with the bathwater in order to make themselves feel warm and fuzzy about their own personal concepts of "book" and "author" (which nobody's really forcing them to redefine anyway).
Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-12-2014 at 03:00 PM.
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