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Originally Posted by Quoth
The corporation selling the toaster-oven is taking books and shuffling them and then claiming the toaster oven wrote them. If the toaster oven produces books that you like, it will be because a large corporation has basically stolen and repackaged the works of humans.
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I. Don't. Care.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Most writers don't make a living wage.
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Thus has it ever been. Thus will it always be. The End.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Successful marketing or customer satisfaction doesn't make it right. It's the most advanced form of Intellectual Property piracy ever seen.
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I've not tried to say its "right" or "wrong." I was actually just responding to Steve's premise of:
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
However, readers want to feel that they are in communication with a human author when reading a book. At least I do. One Big Five advantage is that you can trust there being a human author, even if editorially improved.
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I'm not in "communication" with anyone (but myself) when I read. Least of all the author of the book I'm reading.