[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

[Platt Holden]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> 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.