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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It is not a fallacy, it is pointing out a simple fact, i.e. that most people buy books based on the author or brand name. This, of course, causes the "authors don't matter" crowd, all sorts of grief, so naturally you try to throw out a strawman so you can ignore that simple fact.
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And here you are using a strawman. Who is this "authors don't matter crowd"? Disagreeing with your point does not mean, that authors didn't matter. It means that I don't see why such a distinction would be useful and that I disagree with the connection you make between something being a consumer good and this distinction.
Maybe I would have reacted in an other way, I you hadn't used attacks at people in your post and if there weren't some strange undertones in it. You see, by the way how you present your arguments, they seem to be easy to misunderstood, going by how often you say, someone uses a strawman on you.