The short life and unlamented downfall of *Clean Reader* leads to musings on the reader-author relationship

Tricia Drammeh, Author:

I have to share this excellent and thought-provoking article about the reader/author relationship. Readers with an overblown sense of entitlement have taken “the customer is always right” to a new level.


Originally posted on Zen and the art of tightrope walking:


The short life and unlamented downfall of Clean Reader leads to musings on the reader-author relationship



Blink and you might have missed the kerfuffle. The so-called Clean Reader app offered the chance to read without sullying your precious mind with rude words and profanity by covering them with an alternative deemed acceptable by the app’s creators. However, the backlash from authors including Joanna Harris meant that very rapidly the company was obliged to remove all books from its catalogue. The app seems to still exist (so perhaps my blog headline might be misleading) but I shall watch with interest the developments. I have a feeling we are not done with Clean Reader yet. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/27/clean-reader-books-app-censorship-victory-authors-celebrate



There were some excellent explorations about what the existence of such an app means, the best of which was here:



http://www.remittancegirl.org/2015/03/26/clean-readers-profound-illiteracy-the-consumption-of-the-text/



A conversation on Twitter set me to thinking about the relationship between reader and author…


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Published on March 30, 2015 18:24
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