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Originally Posted by Hellmark
The difference is that with food, it is exceedingly hard and expensive to keep an organic diet in many regions, compared to Amazon will sell you anything you want. They don't make it more difficult to buy the "good stuff", or raise the price. They have no vested interest in having you buy certain things, but they will put something on the front page if they think you're going to be more likely to buy it. With their program for encouraging webpages to link to items for sale, they in some ways make it easy to get what Le Guin would like, or anyone else.
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Did people read the article at all? Of course the consequence of getting people used to mediocre books will be that it will be harder to find (if they exist at all) very good books. And she is not talking about literary books.
To me is seems that people in this thread has gotten used to books that are not particular good and now need to protect themselves from realizing that or need to rationalize their behavior. So we are in this thread seeing one of the negative consequences she is fearing.