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Originally Posted by rhadin
No, what I am implying is that a group of 20 people who read Joe Schmoe's autobiography and thought it was the greatest piece of writing ever written aren't enough to form a consensus.
The Internet has fragmented reading and readers greatly, making it harder to build a consensus on what is great literature and what is dreck.
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So, what number of people is enough?
Fragmented how? You mean fewer people are reading 1950s mundane novels because that is all that was available, and people can find more of what they like more easily?
How is it the Internet's fault that publishers now produce books in orders of magnitude higher numbers? That clearly is going to split readership so generally speaking any publication will have a lower per capita share. That is completely on them, not some nebulous Internet concept.