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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I'm not surprised by the resistance to the idea, of course, because it is very radical compared to the existing model.

I'm not "resistant"-- I just do not see how burying everyone in a mountain of feces helps anyone.

I've never worked in a publishing house sifting through slush piles, but I've seen enough self-published and fan-fiction to see how the vast majority of it is utter garbage (including the self-published fiction that I've looked at here that gets high praise feedbacks, but of course I won't name names.)

I think you are underestimating just how bad bad writing can be. (Any chance you have some books sitting on slushpiles?)

When I turn on the TV, I don't need Masterpiece Theatre to entertain me... I am thoroughly amused watching Chuck.

But Chuck is a very funny, well written show. A better analogy would be, you don't mind watching hours of home videos shot on a shaky camcorder by your neighbor's cousin Bob featuring his two middle-school children acting out scenes from Harry Potter, a film which his elderly Aunt Doris tells him is as good as the work of Cecil B. Demille.