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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The publishers don't give a fig for the readers. The publishers care about one group of people, and one only: the people who speculate on the prices of their stock (in fact, they're legally required to care only about those people). What's good for publishers' short-term stock prices is often very, very bad for the readers -- but that doesn't matter. They're not there for us. They're not there for authors. They're not even there for their own employees. They're there for stock speculators, and only for them.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and it applies across the board from corporate farms to Oil Companies. The Corporation and the laws that support it are destroying all we hold dear and we are following along like a toad in a pan of water brought to a slow boil.
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