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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's fairly humorous how when you (that's a generic you, btw) disagree with the authors, then it's a steaming pile of garbage, yet if an author posts something that you agree with, then it's Right On, Dude!
If you are going to do the appeal to authority, then you can't have it both ways. You either respect the right of authors to have an informed opinion on the matter, or they are just another Joe whose only value is that they agree or disagree with your personal belief.
I would also point out that the author's main point, that books are not simply gross product is fairly obvious true, otherwise you wouldn't have best selling authors such as J.K. Rowlings, Stephen King, etc. Simply dismissing it out of hand as a steaming pile of garbage doesn't make it untrue, no matter how strongly you may personally feel about it.
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Have you taken the trouble to actually read even one of the criticisms of the letter? It is so bad it is embarrasing, and does no credit to those who signed it. I actually think the BWM would be better without this type of assistance, which is so misconceived in its approach that it is likely to alienate people from their cause rather than attract them to it.
As to your final paragraph, far from dismissing it out of hand, I simply feel that the criticisms referred to in this thread do such a comprehensive demolition of this steaming pile of garbage that I have no need to rehash them here. As for the authors "main point", you could make the same argument in relation to any product. Using this reasoning, surely cars are not simply gross product, otherwise you wouldn't have best selling models like .................
In any event, the point they actually tried to make, apparently in all seriousness, was not that books are totally interchangeable, which is what I assume you are referring to when you say books are not simply gross product. It was that books are not consumer goods! The so-called "special snowflake" argument. Delusional, patronising, insulting and just plain stupid and wrong.