In a message dated 12/29/08 10:25:50 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Assuming you were a publisher and Gladwell offered you his next book, would > you tell him to look elsewhere? > No -- I'd first ask some questions and make some requests. If he had submitted "Outliers", I'd lay out the same criticisms I did in my first posting on this thread. If he said, "Aw, the hell with revealing everything I came up with during research that contradicts my yummy thesis that will appeal to the mediocre masses and so sell a lot of books," I would have said, "Then, Aw the hell with your book." He says some interesting things in the book, and he says them articulately, but they are overwhelmed by the falseness of too much else. Don't tell me I wouldn't reject a possibly bestselling book for a reason like that: I've done it. And I'm not alone. The number of fascinating but totally bogus Kennedy assassination books that have rejected by publishers is very large. ************** One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp& icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)
