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I don't know if it was always the plan. Move fast and break things as an ethos suggests to me that these choices are made live and in...

I mean, serious question: why would they make the product they made, using the methods they used, if they didn't intend to steal...

Why thank you, kind sir or madam or zir. ;)

People keep saying this stuff is a problem, but I get the feeling it's actually the entire point.

Whew! Dodged that bullet. If that had been irreverent I'd have been in trouble.

I knew the ice cream machine was broken, but I didn’t think it was this bad

Despite owning and having read several books on organization schema and having taken the quite fancy sounding "Theory of Organization of...

The bookshelves in my house are very loosely grouped--there are some categories we have multiple books in--and in many of the groups...

Entire shelves of books have been written about organization schema for books and libraries. Not surprisingly there are classes on it in...

There might be at least some usable information in the non-novel stuff people put in their novels--forewords, afterwords...

Tracking blurbs would be interesting, but it would be fraught, as you point out. I feel like what we'd need would be something that...

Crichton's an interesting one. I'm not as familiar with his work as King's, but scanning his Wikipedia page to get a better sense of...

I agree that it doesn't automatically equate there. It's my subjective estimation of their relative talent. And while I don't...

But...what about tpb vs mmpb vs hc??? Are we just going to let them MINGLE???

Exactly. High-minded literature sucks because it’s largely plotless and boring like large stretches of real life. The stuff that makes...