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Read her article.... She is complaining about how the current BS system is meaningless (or not) in determining if a book is "good". She never says you aren't allowed to enjoy your books. She never says your books are bad... I would think there are too many other things in life that you can be offended about instead of trying to force her article into the shape of an attack on you.
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Bah! The problem that I and other folks are having is that Ms. Le Guin is blaming Amazon for the bestseller system, which they aren't. Ms. Le Guin's publisher is the one pushing bestsellers. Ms. Le Guin is blaming Amazon for the state of modern "Literature". They are not (if anything her publisher is more to blame for pushing the bestseller system). Ms. Le Guin has been beating this drum since the Hachette/Amazon debacle and she just can't wrap her mind around the fact that times are changing and like her publisher is really not prepared to move onto the new reality. The old gatekeepers are dead. Long live the new gatekeepers (or the lack thereof).
And finally. Ms. Le Guin, please stop telling me where to spend my money. I'm an adult with 50+ years of reading under my belt and I don't need you to tell me what's good for me. ... Thank you.
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Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.
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When Ms. Le Guin and or her publisher have *proof* that Amazon is controlling what the authors write and what we read, I'd guess the U.S Justice Department would be glad to talk to them. In the meantime it's just blowing smoke.