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29 LOGOS Cause for Debate – 6 Fiction: An art form or entertainment? Stephen Horvath Richard Abel (For several years, two members of our Advisory Board, Stephen Horvath and Richard Abel, have been exchanging letters, purely for their mutual enlightenment. With their permission, the following excerpts are shared with the LOGOS audience.) Horvath to Abel Recently I came across an article by Jason Epstein in The New York Review of Books , which I liked very much for its style and references. I agreed with both his facts and his arguments until the concluding section, where he implies that the World Wide Web could serve as the only intermediation between readers and writers. I can imagine a world in which neither distribution nor marketing are the responsibilities of the publisher, but I see nothing but entropic chaos when I try to envision the “withering away” of the editorial function. Just because anything can be posted on the Web, and because it would be increasingly simple to reproduce text from a digital repository, I do not think we will be better off with- out the judgment and discrimination now exercised by editors and bookstore buyers. I also struggle to
Logos – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2002
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