I think I just found a way to save the publishing industry

[sabotabby]

If you are going to burn a book, any book, the way I see it, you've got three options.

1) You steal it. If you are a religious nutjob, you will probably not do this.

2) You take it out from the library. You should not do this because librarians know where you live, and they are not people to be trifled with.

3) You buy it. This is really your only practical option for mass burnings*.

Except, then, you are upping the sales of the very book you claim to hate so much. And financially supporting the publishers and booksellers, who, let's face it, need any sale they can get these days, and don't really care what you do with a book once you buy it.

Really, everyone wins.

* Obviously, there have been historical cases where book-burners raided universities or parents took their children's possessions to burn. But I have a hard time imagining that Bible-beaters already owned copies of the Qu'ran.

Comments

Re: Off-Topic

[sabotabby]

This bewilders me. I read the article, but the phrase makes no sense.

You know in those movies where the hero meets some abused prostitute (or, in a more comedic narrative, secretly gay or deeply in love with some other woman, but his friends think he will never get laid ever so they take him to a prostitute) and pays for her time and then just sits and talks to her instead? I'm imagining a ring of guys doing that.

Or, I guess maybe there's a ring of prostitutes paying johns to have sex with them? This does not seem economically sound, but we live in a postmodern era.

Re: Off-Topic

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

The first such scene which comes to mind is in The Butterfly Effect, when Ashton Kutcher's character locates his old love. However, the timeline in which he pays her is subsequently erased when he goes back to change history ;)

(Yeah it was a pretty bad movie)