But I don't think it had anything to do with ethics. Rather it was deep disappointment that the author of Primary Colors was not a famous person at all. He was just a writer. S till, I'd like to think that a few readers will appreciate real books from real writers. It is unghosted.
Bureaucrats require that yogurt be truthfully labeled.
W orry not, reader. But not about my concern with the CVS Syndrome. The irony is that publishers themselves could be among the biggest victims of the ascendancy of marketers over writers and editors. Sales of hardback books are down, and while they'll probably rebound, the conglomerates are not raking in nearly as much from book sales as they would like. The goal of an 18 percent profit is about as real as the characters in the typical ghostwritten novel.