The wages of sin have never been reduced. English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Writing is easy.
All you have to do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein. There is many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with riches. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.