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Saving Huck
The price of freedom is vigilance; this sanitized version of “Huckleberry Finn” shows that we need to be vigilant now, protest (http://www.newsouthbooks.com/pages/2011/01/10/conversations-on-newsouths-edition-of-mark-twains-tom-sawyer-and-huckleberry-finn/) its publication, and protect our recorded civilization from “e-book evanescence,” where the “real,” the permanent and paper-published book falls subsidiary to PC-driven “googlizations,” new and censored e-versions. E-censors can try and control our collective online archives, profit from the gutting, sanitizing and repackaging of art, and in so doing, alter our past, stupefy our present, and control our future. This is not a tolerable outcome for thinking people. Allowing such adulterating of our common library, on our watch, without comment, is tantamount to publishing the censored version of “Huckleberry Finn” ourselves. Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Farm, bowdlerization, censorship, google, Huckleberry Finn, NewSouth
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Patronage the New Business Model ?
A LinkedIn blogger asked: Is the book publishing business model so broken that we need patrons to subsidize our work? ( see http://is.gd/BNkV ) Patronage is one way to do it, but, as with advertising in books, if you follow … Continue reading