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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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She never, in this article, says what books she is against. I haven't read many of her past articles, but no one here has mentioned some book she railed against in the past. And two of the three authors she praises (Skloot, O'Brian, Tolkien) would generally be seen as genre writers.
So why this idea that she's an elitist?
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Originally Posted by murg
Are you talking about the publishers here?
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Me personally? I do like reading the big five product. As for how they treat their worker bees, and their authors, obviously it varies, and I'm pretty sure the big publisher median pay per hour is more than Amazon's.
But it isn't about me.
Le Guin talks about the big publishers. She's against them. The last third of her article dumps the big publishers in the same bucket with Amazon.
And she may be even more against Google:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...ors-guild-deal
Her theme isn't elitism. It's anti-capitalism. If Le Guin was participating in this thread, she'd likely say that, and be correct.