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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And that is exactly the wrong thing for the wider culture. If we publish what has the greatest potential to earn out, then all we'll have is celebrity biographies, ghost-written celebrity novels and Dan Brown. Is that the book culture you want? You want mindless pablum for the rest of time, because if profit is the bottom line, then that's all you'll ever get (not that the traditional publishers aren't doing that right now).
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As much as I hate to I have to admit it and agree with you there is truth in that. But much of the reason is the marketing to the mindless masses. There is still a place for "real" books as well IMO. Perhaps different types of publishers just as there are now -- mass market publishers and literary publishers. Nothing wrong with that.