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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
In truth, the traditional authors will get more of a shaft by this due to their royalties.
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So you'll get
some shaft, but because a disliked group, or their patrons, will get
more shaft, you are still rooting to be shafted.
This is what communists used to (back when there were a lot of them) call false consciousness.
I haven't read this next book -- after writing this, now I'll have to at least start it. But it may present the same kind of idea in a less extreme guise:
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-K...le+with+kansis
Apologies for it being a politically left of center link. There must be also be some conservative tomes on why people cheer on plutocrats* who would impoverish them, and if I think of one, I'll post it for ideological balance.
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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I checked it out from the Library
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Can't be, since early in the thread (or maybe it was another recent thread on this issue), someone from the pro-Amazon camp claimed that Hachette won't let libraries have at their new titles for two years.
Of course, it can be, since I also have borrowed it
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* Or maybe, rather than pluto-crat, I should have written moon-crat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin