Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing
says The Times. Or rather, says the Society of Authors, a UK body representing “more than 8,500 professional writers”. The headline is terminally silly, and it’s hard to square the article with certain recent developments: either the Society is exaggerating, or this is just something that afflicts celebrity chefs. (Incidentally, a noted Irish agent is fond of telling aspiring authors to abandon their literary work in favour of writing cookbooks. Maybe he needs to revise his position…)
Hat tip to Damien Mulley for the link.
I suppose the money is good in them. No matter how many books people buy they still don’t know how to cook. Diet books probably fit under the same heading except you need to make ridiculous and disturbing claims. I’m just waiting for when Dihydrogen-oxide becomes the thing you absolutely have to cut out of your diet.