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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I have no doubt that there are people who work for publishers who care deeply about literature. Just as I have no doubt that there are people who work for Amazon who care about the plight of the working man. But publishing companies care no more about the "integrity of literature" than Amazon cares about the common man.
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Then why does Farrar, Straus and Giroux publish so much poetry:
http://www.fsgpoetry.com/
And why is it that when you use the search term "ebola" at
www.amazon.com/books, you find loads of panic-mongering Kindle Direct Publishing instant titles, with the major publishers sticking to sober older titles?
You could point out that major publishers sometimes release works of medical quackery. But it seems to me that, more often than not, they do have more integrity than that.
Maybe the major publishers release less commercial titles out of a selfish desire to attract bestselling authors who themselves like poetry, or who wouldn't want to share their imprint with
Ebola: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. As I reader, I don't care about the motive, when it results in great medical-topic books like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Ma...eywords=cancer
It's not a matter of being scared of Amazon. It is a matter of asking -- where is the Kindle Direct Publishing -- or Amazon Publishing -- book to match my last link?
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Originally Posted by TimW
The implication was, if "scourge Wylie" is siding with the "scourged publishers" against Amazon, Ammy must be REALLY bad.
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If depends on how friendly one thinks it was to quote Wylie's extreme statements, such as the mention of ISIS. I didn't see it as a pro-Wylie gesture.
If Gessen wanted to say Amazon was REALLY bad, why the heck did he write what amounted to a advertisement for their human interface testing?
And, for what it's worth, Gessen is not on the Author's United list.