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Books at least go through a minimal amount of vetting before they are published, and there are meaningful differences between forms of media. As McLuhan wrote:
by _Algernon_ 2y ago
Books at least go through a minimal amount of vetting before they are published, and there are meaningful differences between forms of media. As McLuhan wrote: "The medium is the message".
- IshKebab 2y agoMaybe in the 1900s. Not any more
- Tuna-Fish 2y agoLol, no they don't. If you have a pdf with enough words in it, you can go from that to a published paperback on Amazon in 15 minutes.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoThose aren't books. They're printed blogs you pay for. Every book can be published as a pdf. That doesn't mean that every pdf is a book.
- satvikpendem 2y agoWhat a textbook (sorry, printed blog) example of a No True Scotsman.
- shkkmo 2y ago> Those aren't books. They're printed blogs you pay for. If you are going to make an outlandish claim like this, at least try to post some criteria to defend. Not doing so has led to you not realizing that you can't without also excluding works of classical literature like Sense & Sensibility (which was self-published by Jane Austin). There's also more direct problems with the arbitary line you are trying to draw, like best-selling book The Martian, which was originally published as a blog, then self-published as an e-book, then officially published as a book by a major publisher.
- smsm42 2y agoNo true Scottsman!
- _Algernon_ 2y agoActually its implication: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication
- abecedarius 2y ago1. Some blogs are better than most books. 2. Some carefully-written ebooks now are self-published, and I don't care if their cover design and promotion campaign aren't as professional.
- exe34 2y agoso if they're good, they're books. if not, they're not _really_ books.