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I read today that during the great depression Roosevelt's WPA got publishers to hire authors to write books, paid for by the WPA, that could be sold cheaply to the public so that even the poorest would have something to read. The article said that this was how paperback books began to get popular.
This might be a plan to deal with some of the problems in publishing today. If someone wants to write a book they get paid a salary while they write it and then it belongs to the government.
Not a serious suggestion but it does point out that there might be other, better ways of having books to read.
Barry
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