This caused considerable resentment, particularly among the Unbought on the bookstore shelves, who grumbled about readers being called “fans,” and a readership, an “audience.” And why should the authors get all the attention, when they were nothing more than celebrity midwives with fingers? Bookstores were not venues, but at least when these so-called author events were held there, the Unbought could still hope that when a Tidy Magic reader passed by the fiction shelf, a copy of Great Expectations or Jane Eyre might muster up the fortitude to defy gravity and leap into that reader’s arms.
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