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Originally Posted by Section8
I wouldn't be surprised, if in Victorian England, the literary types were worrying that all those magazine serials by popular authors like Dickens were killing literature.
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I think they would have been more worried about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_dreadful
Also, high and low fiction writers (say, Trollope and Collins respectively -- Dickens was in-between) had a common adversary in all the old-fashioned ministers, and the like, who were proclaiming novel-reading to be sinful. This tended to bring them together, and maybe was one reason the three I mention were all friends.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You cannot sell books at Store A (and accept money for selling your books at Store A) and ask readers not to buy books at Store A. Well you can, but can't do it without sounding like an ass.
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She simply is not powerful enough to force this on her publishers. Maybe you'll say she could go the self-publishing route. But she may not have it in herself to be a businesswoman. And being a self-publishing Amazon boycotter would, given Amazon's dominant position, cause her to take a tremendous financial hit. I don't think people should be pressured to choose between their financial well-being and expressing their opinion.
As for her article, it is too extreme for my tastes.