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Delusional, patronising, insulting and just plain stupid and wrong.
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This objection is a steaming pile of garbage . . .
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I think this non-big-five book, which I recommend, is relevant:
http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php
As explained in the book, once you get even 60 percent of the people in a neighborhood agreeing on something -- anything -- opinions tend to ramp up in intensity until you start seeing righteous certainty. This kind of thread is such a neighborhood.
Perhaps there are listservs, restricted to major-published authors, where they similarly ramp up until there are comparable statements of certainty, albeit with opposite content. Good thing, for those authors' sake, that, AFAIK, any such forums are non-public. Neighborhoods of certainty do not look so attractive from the outside.
Personally, I don't like this kind of rah-rah our side is right. Maybe it's for the same unknown reason that the sports fan gene seems to have mostly skipped my family.
Now, back to the actual discussion of an eReading related issue.
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. . . where is the letter to Hatchette urging them to do a better job of negotiating a new contract with Amazon, or at least, asking both of them to extend the terms of the previous contract until the new contract is finalized.
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Do you have a link to copy of this contract?