Amazon's review policy - which is to say, to value customer reviews as more than opinion - is another step in the democratization of literature that moves the culture toward the lowest common denominator. A review of an Overdrive book today makes the point ... loved the story but wanted a traditional novel. That's fine. Said I was lazy. That's not fine. It's a narrative experiment, hardly lazy, and I've written traditional novels for half a century, hardly lazy, and these facts are public and available in a few minutes by anyone who wonders. What bugs me is this uninformed opinion matters as much as an informed one. Accuracy is irrelevant.
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What I'm learning about marketing is that content is almost irrelevant. This is the literary world today. Pound saw all of this coming in The ABC of Reading. Part of the dumbing-down of the culture. Man, I'm glad I'll be out of here soon!
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What I'm learning about marketing is that content is almost irrelevant. This is the literary world today. Pound saw all of this coming in The ABC of Reading. Part of the dumbing-down of the culture. Man, I'm glad I'll be out of here soon!
