Comments on: Novelists’ strike fails to affect U.S. whatsoever http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/17/novelists-strike-fails-to-affect-us-whatsoever/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:27:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jon Jermey http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/17/novelists-strike-fails-to-affect-us-whatsoever/#comment-738951 Jon Jermey Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:48:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/03/17/novelists-strike-fails-to-affect-us-whatsoever/#comment-738951 There is a wonderful quote in Douglas Adams's radio scripts for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fearful of being put out of work, the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Professional Thinking Persons calls for industrial action when a giant new computer called Deep Thought is built. "You'll have a national Philosophers' Strike on your hands." they threaten. "Who will that inconvenience?" inquires Deep Thought mildly. Likewise the novelists' strike. What a pity it's only fiction! There is a wonderful quote in Douglas Adams’s radio scripts for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fearful of being put out of work, the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Professional Thinking Persons calls for industrial action when a giant new computer called Deep Thought is built. “You’ll have a national Philosophers’ Strike on your hands.” they threaten.

“Who will that inconvenience?” inquires Deep Thought mildly.

Likewise the novelists’ strike. What a pity it’s only fiction!

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