Kids are also eating more unhealthy foods than ever. The solution is not to disguise healthy food so it looks like junk, the solution is to teach them to appreciate good food.
Similarly, children can easily be drawn to good books without the vile abomination of "model" illustrations. For example, I know the minute a teacher starts reading a book to his class - they all stream into the library wanting that book, or one in the same series, or one by the same author. Parents can accomplish the same thing.
A publisher's job may be to make money, but that reminds me of the scene in Little Women where the Professor points out to Jo that just because people will buy poison it's no reason for her to be selling it. The way you describe it, "publisher" sounds an awful lot like "prostitute." If they'd quit printing some of the dreck that they do just to turn a quick buck, they'd sell more of the good books.
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Date: 1/22/07 07:46 pm (UTC)Similarly, children can easily be drawn to good books without the vile abomination of "model" illustrations. For example, I know the minute a teacher starts reading a book to his class - they all stream into the library wanting that book, or one in the same series, or one by the same author. Parents can accomplish the same thing.
A publisher's job may be to make money, but that reminds me of the scene in Little Women where the Professor points out to Jo that just because people will buy poison it's no reason for her to be selling it. The way you describe it, "publisher" sounds an awful lot like "prostitute." If they'd quit printing some of the dreck that they do just to turn a quick buck, they'd sell more of the good books.