Quote of the Day | 0919

Books, like newspapers, are an essentially middle-class phenomenon whose market is the self-improving professional. As a bourgeois medium, books and their authors depend on the cash nexus. Johnson went straight to the point with: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

Robert McCrum, ‘Google’s publishing free for all undermines our literary tradition’


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