I meant to put in the subject line that this was a forwarded email from
Melissa to me to the list as her computer time ran out!
Edmund
>From: Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Sheep p.s.
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:13:08 +0000
>
>>This is rather a hard line of yours, I think, because of course they are
>>paying for it indirectly through tax, and that's part of the collegiate
>>state-society; justifying the use of public funds on anything is always
>>very difficult, of course, a public statue here, a healthcare service
>>there,
>
>
>I mean, that you explicate the psychological aspect of
>marketing-conditioning in which consumers are given a choice as a way of
>being told what to buy - Whereas someone - for the purposes of this
>discussion, me - who believes in state funding for the arts, might say that
>supporting the widest range of "poetry selves" as possible, even if some
>would not be printable as commercial concerns, was important in order to
>provide an actual choice.
>
>
>Well anyway, I thought I'd try and question some of these assertions,
>rather than let them all slide away without examination.
>
>Melissa
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>
>
>
>>From: Melissa Flores <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Melissa Flores <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Sheep
>>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:43:53 +0200
>>
>>Oh I see what you mean, Chris. Fight!
>>
>> >If
>> >readers aren't paying for literature I'd argue that we've got something
>> >closer to propaganda.
>>
>>This is rather a hard line of yours, I think, because of course they are
>>paying for it indirectly through tax, and that's part of the collegiate
>>state-society; justifying the use of public funds on anything is always
>>very difficult, of course, a public statue here, a healthcare service
>>there, and perhaps Americans on the list can comment on Arts funding
>>there? I'd be interested in that.
>>
>>What if the sponsorship is from business corporations - as with higher
>>profile arts like operas or gallery exhibitions? Is that close to
>>propaganda? What do you mean by "propaganda" exactly?
>>
>>I've been involved in setting up and running a small business, as well as
>>working in the NGO field, and I'd think that independent poetry publishing
>>obviously benefits from sales and marketing and productions aspects of
>>entrepeneurial models, which Salt so well adapts, but it surely is a
>>cottage industry level concern - though of course the short story line is
>>probably the most "scaleable" as they say?
>>
>>If the owners of capital want to maximise profits, they don't wonder what
>>John Wilkinson is up to; a publisher looks to the front rack at WHSmiths
>>or Tesco. If the capitalist and the publisher make a different choice it's
>>either one of finding a less competitive niche in the market, or else it's
>>some kind of philosophy or non-business IDEA which has driven them - yes,
>>into the marketplace - but not rooted there.
>>
>>*
>>
>>John's question about POD - as a reader and quite voracious buyer of
>>poetry, I must say I'm biased against POD books - they're all floppy and
>>unsatisfactory and feel like magazines.
>>
>> (tho i appreciate what wonders they've done for indie presses etc of
>>course)
>>
>>Melissa
>>
>>
>>
>>Día de la Madre: Convierte su día en algo muy especial
>>http://pan.starmedia.com/especiales/diadelamadre07/
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