"Before she became a staff writer at the Times, she was the editor of LAist.com, web producer for the public radio show Marketplace, and a web consultant for the Getty. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle."
Well she does say "the same number of books with". It's the implicit assumption that he'd sell the same number of books that is faulty, not the text itself.
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> Locke makes less money with his 99-cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.
It's like nobody has ever heard of a supply/demand curve.
"Before she became a staff writer at the Times, she was the editor of LAist.com, web producer for the public radio show Marketplace, and a web consultant for the Getty. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle."
Agreed.
Well she does say "the same number of books with". It's the implicit assumption that he'd sell the same number of books that is faulty, not the text itself.
It's the assumption I'm finding fault with, though. Why include it? It's entirely unreasonable.