I didn't argue that. Tell me how y are not misinterpreting me.
Of course, paperbacks changed literature and I'm saying there was cultural handwringing--high v low culture--about that. I sense a similar perhaps snobbish worry here.
The concern about the paperbacking of culture had its roots in technology--the Linotype, stereotyping, etc--but also, importantly, in distribution: a belief according to some that selling books in train stations and drugstores was not the expansion of culture but its ruin.
For example, from something I'm writing:
Handwringing e.g.,: "Amazon figures literature as a service, just another good the company can offer to sell the buyer a slightly higher quality of life. The idea of the poignant work of art that will change a reader’s life or challenge their beliefs seems absent."

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