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Originally Posted by hildea
I mentioned several serious drawbacks to your suggestion a couple of pages back. Do you have any comments to any of those? Do you think they won't happen, or do you think none of the drawbacks are important? |
I read your earlier post and I think I've been commenting on some of your points already. I agree there will probably be fewer new novels. I've said that a number of times. I'm not sure how much of a problem that is.
I didn't comment on your idea about the quality declining due to a lack of professional services such as editing. I'm not a writer and I'm not sure how important that is. I do know that authors say it's important but I wonder if we didn't have good literature before we had good editors. And how much do editors make a book a team effort instead of simply the work of the author. I'm not sure about any of this so I didn't comment. I do think if it becomes a problem authors will find ways to deal with it.
I'm not sure this would affect the diversity of authors. Maybe there would be more rich white ones but I suspect all kinds of people will keep writing because they love to write.
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A lot of people read and enjoy new novels, including genre novels. Losing most of those might not be a loss to you personally, but I assure you that it would be a significant loss to many, many readers.
Frankly, this view sounds like someone going to a buffet and throwing out all the food they don't like, because they can't imagine that other people might have different tastes.
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I doubt seriously there would be NO new books. There would probably be fewer but those who were writing would be doing so because they want to, not because they hope to get rich. Maybe we're having a quantity vs quality discussion.
Barry