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The Best And Worst Of Times For Publishing

Posted at 7:29AM Tuesday 09 Mar 2010

Just at the moment there's a constant background murmur of complaint from what one might call the New Elitists that the pure well of our literature is being polluted by – for example – celebrity novels and ghosted memoirs. To say nothing, of course, about the explosion of stuff that's appearing, unmediated, on the web.

But how new or different is this, actually?

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