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  Oct 24, 2011

  Will Amazon Kill Off Book Publishers? - Room for Debate

  What happens when more writers have the option of a one-stop shop: agent, publisher and bookseller.

  Not much.

  They are just another book seller and publisher.  

  The agents will last as long as independent writers.  The agents are the writer's sales force.
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  Oct 24, 2011

  Monopoly vs. Diversity in Book Publishing - Room for Debate

  Publishing isn’t about developing algorithms. It’s been about art-making and speaking truth to power.

  Writers do the art.  If Amazon does not publish art they will die.

  This man is whining to no purpose.
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  Oct 24, 2011

  Amazon Enters Publishing: There's No Going Back - Room for Debate

  Writers are increasingly taking on a mind-set like app developers in that they will align with the big platforms, be it Kindle or the Apple Store.

  Writers have always known that their problem is to be paid for art.

  Pot boiler is a descriptor of writing.  Sometimes it is better art than others.
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  Oct 24, 2011

  The Psychology of Occupy Wall Street - Room for Debate

  There's a common thread in the Occupy protests worldwide: everyone is mad. Do they have more in common than anger?

  Anger is not the proper descriptor.  Determination to be noticed may be closer to their common thread.  90+% of our population has found itself surplus to the one percent.
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  Oct 24, 2011

  Libya's Lessons for Syria - Room for Debate

  Libya took up arms and called for foreign military intervention. And they got it.

  
  

  Islam in particular and religion in general provide no legitimacy to governments if truth exists separate from religious authority.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_%28political%29

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