Thread: just because you have written a book does not make you an author
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Old 03-14-2014, 09:29 PM   #354
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Originally Posted by moonshot View Post
You can dress up, change or alter what you think I mean if you want to.

So once more. Those who have typed out words and then clicked them up to Amazon and have added a price, their work should be separated from those who have taken the art of writing more seriously and have had their work proof read, copy edited etc. etc.

If you want to call anyone and everyone who writes something an author, fair enough, but it not the word author that I have an issue with, (although I do not see them as authors) it is as I said above.

I have written a screen play, so am I a screenwriter? [...]
(Bolding mine)

See, that wasn't so hard. Despite what you said in the OP, it seems that the word author isn't a problem for you after all.

There have been enough analogies, so I'll leave the screenwriter alone - it's not needed.

Now, why do you want Amazon to segregate books in this way?

You've said on other posts that you don't have trouble finding good things to read, so why do you care?

Amazon already segregates books in various ways: best seller lists; Best Books of 2013; Best Books of the Month; Award Winners; Award Winning Children's Books; Book Club Picks; and more. Why do you also want this other segregation? Who benefits? Not you apparently, you can already find enough good books. Not Amazon apparently, or they would already be doing it. Not the majority of other posters here, it would seem, or your OP would have received more support. So where's the advantage?
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