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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You're right on your first point, but you're absolutely batshit insane if you think any of the Big12 are in this game to further literature or even offer 'good'. In the last couple of weeks an ex-glamour model's ghostwritten chick-lit novel was at the top of the publishing lists in the UK. Do not talk to me of 'best' and 'good' when this shit goes on almost daily. Next you'll be assigning some lofty goal of nutrition to McDonalds, or the furthering of knowledge to Microsoft.
Publishing is a business, a business that is owned by other businesses, part of the corporate hegemony that does not now, nor has it ever, had any concern for the creativity it so unashamadely profits from. It's a bottom-line, no thought, please-all-of-the-people all-of-the-time grey wash of nothingness.
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Thanks for the laugh. It made it abundantly clear to me why I rarely read current "best sellers", unless by an author I already am familiar with. And then I sometimes wonder why I bother.
There is just so much wonderful reading material out there, published years ago, by those who knew how to write. I'm also finding independent authors, thanks to this site, who are more worthy than the claptrap that passes as literary material today.