Dear Publishing world...@#$% you.

[khall]

       As many of you don't know, my uncle stores shit in my garage. Today/this morning while waiting for the laundry to be done, to go to bed, I stumbled across a box of books. Now, if you know me, you know that books are like alcohol sprinkled crack rocks mixed with drunk teenage girls to a alcohol-sprinkled crack-addicted drunken drunken-teenage

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You seem to have faulty logic here

[musicman]

Academic studies are often the result of years of work on the part of the academic, studying her/his corner of academia. So the premise that it is not interesting to the general reading is correct. Most often, the book (or paper, or pamphlet) is of interest to a few hundred people, at most. And the publishers know this, but if it is an academic publisher, it may be subsidized in the endeavor by the academic community, university, specialty group. And then, too, the professor may have to pony up a lot of the expense himself. For instance, it is standard that the author pay for all of the photography/artwork that must be obtained or produced, including hiring a photographer/artist and or paying for rights to use other people's art and photography. If you are willing to do that, you too can probably publish. For instance, you could do a study on kinky girl's bra sizes as a correlation to polyamory. You will need to hire the photographer, as well as pay for the study itself. And unless you can find an academic publisher interested in

[khall]

At no point does your logic give me the opportunity to say 'badger-cod-boiling bollocks'. That is something that smart people say in foreign countries. Like Canada and England and other places that they talk all stuck-up and sophisticated and hoity-toity. It instantly wins any arguments, as a consequence of appeal to American-inferiority about our history complex. Ask your girlfriend or any hot chick from England with big boobs, she will agree with me too. :/

K.

does she go?

[musicman]

nipples-fart-running nods

[khall]

A gentleman never makes up fake-british-sounding curse words and tells...it is in the rules, I think.:)

K.

[nynrose]

Unfortunately, it used to be true that it is hard to get published - by one of the Big Six. But, the reality is that now anyone who wants to can get "published" by going the self-publishing route and throwing stuff up on Amazon.com as an e-book. The market is drastically changing, and gone is the day that books were well edited or thought out. Of course, I have no excuse for that particular book other than it was likely something in a niche market for collectors.

[khall]

*smiles* I don't think it is as easy to...break out, as that, though. It might be easy to get a couple of bucks, but...to become a household name...I think the e-publishing movement just made it harder. It's nice to be a writer. That's great. To be an author...you have to affect thought, to...be a tag to an aspect of social consciousness forever. To change something, even if...it's just how people think of how air smells or...some minor point of philosophy. I've never...doubted that I could be a writer. It's sort of...why it's scared me, to try to become an author...I might settle for a modicum of success and never achieve greatness...

Yeah, I'm sure it was. It just seemed incredibly obscure and precise/narrowly-focused to write a book about. About as interesting as inviting the APA/MLA committee over to your house for a family dinner.:)

K.

[xrussian_dollx]

At least they're books. Like... real books made of paper.

[khall]

I will let you roll around in them naked, if you let me watch?:)

K.

[keetara]

Owwwww! Paper cuts!!!

[khall]

I would kiss them better?

K.

[magentametrix]

Please note that someone, namely your uncle, purchased and kept the books.

[khall]

Er...well, at a garage sale, so he could sell them on ebay.:)

I love that you love all books like that. <3

K.

[bound_dragon]

Sir, I prostrate myself at your feet and worship you thoroughly for your mastery of words.

[khall]

*grins and kisses* <3 to people who appreciate a good rant.:)

K.