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Who the %!*$ are you calling 'civilised', you @$*&$!?
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On a serious note though, thanks to everyone for keeping this a place of eloquence and good natured discussion. I can't remember who in this thread said it, but it is often the person with the most strident opinions and aggressive/personal language that picks up most on others supposedly using the same.
As far as the actual discussion goes, I would just like to say well done to Lee Child for poking his head above the parapet, as it was quite brave for a legacy author like him to go on TPV where everyone is in the "opposite" camp. On his actual points though, I do agree that he is slightly out of touch with the majority of authors, but as far as he is concerned, from his perspective he is keeping up with the times, but as we know he has a skewed perspective given the position he's in. It's not entirely his fault, and good on him for engaging. It's more than a lot of legacy authors have done, and different things suit different people.
Personally, I don't mind paying a slightly higher price on ebooks, but do object to them costing more than the physical version. Even though I do read more ebooks than before, my reading is still majority paper, for fiction and non-fiction, so I'm happy reading in whatever format. What I would like to see, as a book consumer in the UK, as far as p-formats go, is a return to A-format for commercial fiction, as the size is better, and it delineates between c-fic and lit/non-fic. Just my penny's worth.