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How do you feel that many "pleb authors" today will be reprinted in scholarly editions in the future, with critics analyzing it and adding explanatory notes to everything? How do you feel that we'll have Oxford World Classics or Norton Critical Editions of Stephen King or Harry Potter books?

>> No.13026595

>>13026577
>we'll have Oxford World Classics or Norton Critical Editions of Stephen King or Harry Potter books
We won't. But it all breaks down to money. I'm fine with having Edgar Rice Burroughs if it means that can help us have Laurence Sterne and Matthew Lewis. Plus you make the assumption that there'll be books at all in the future.

>> No.13026598

Do you actually believe that will happen?

>> No.13026614

>>13026598
It probably will. Publishing houses are not selling as much as they used to, so they're adding genre fiction to their catalogue as well, like how James Ellroy was recently added to Everyman's library, and His Dark Materials is also there. Now, I don't think they'll add Stephen King and Harry Potter for various reasons but they'll add some other genre fiction, too. Science fiction is long overdue for a literary treatment, anyway.

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>>13026577
Everything is going to change

>> No.13026990

>>13026577
>How do you feel that we'll have Oxford World Classics or Norton Critical Editions of Stephen King or Harry Potter books?
physical books are already a meme in 2019

>> No.13027010

>>13026577

Burroughs wasn't a pleb though.

>> No.13027059

>>13026624
Spooky implications, very very high IQ take and deliverance

>> No.13027061

>I'm dumb and /lit/ must know

>> No.13027094

>>13026614

Philip Pullman I can kind of understand being added there but not the others.

>> No.13027738

>>13026624
>implying civilization hadn't collapsed by the black sea deluge

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>>13027738
>It rained. Over a lake
Heh, what?