On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > If you want to know about unethical behavior to promote book sales, just > look into what happens to books put out by right-wing politicians. Talk > about unethical! Sarah Palin's book and books like that are purchased by the > case to pump up sales figures and then they're "given" away to political > donors. Now that's a racket. The books published by Regnery, for example, > are essentially bombs in the culture war. They're written for activists and > axe-grinders, for propaganda purposes. For these guys, intellectual merit is > quite beside the point and merely seeming to be popular is every bit as good > as the real thing. > > Next time you walk by the bargain bin at your local bookstore, take notice > of how many discount stickers are stuck to the cover of books by FOX "news" > hosts, etc. That bargain bin is the last stop before those books become > recycled paper. That bargain bin is literally the last time those books will > be worth more than the paper they're written on. After a few weeks there, > Bill O'Reilly's works become a relatively affordable form of toilet paper. > And rightly so. > Platt Jealousy on parade. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
