QUESTION TEXT: Book publishers have traditionally published a few…
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken
CONCLUSION: Publishers care more about money and less about intrinsic value than they used to.
REASONING: Publishers used to publish some valuable books that were unlikely to make a profit. They do this less often now.
ANALYSIS: There could be other reasons why publishers publish fewer intrinsically valuable books.
Maybe authors are writing fewer such books, for example. Or maybe authors are self-publishing those books.
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- The argument agrees that book publishers have always liked money. The argument is that they like money even more now.
- CORRECT. If this is true, then maybe there are fewer intrinsically valuable books for publishers to support.
- This could explain why publishers used to print many unprofitable but valuable books. It doesn’t explain why they stopped printing them.
- That’s nice. But this doesn’t tell us anything about the authors who wrote intrinsically valuable books that didn’t seem profitable.
- This could explain why publishers put out fewer unprofitable books. But it doesn’t disprove the idea that publishers are now more interested in making money.
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