Augusto Monterroso has the right idea about how bad books (translate here for the US - books sold at airports, shopping malls, supermarkets) should be published in expensive, leather-bound editions to keep them, as much as humanly possible, away from the masses.
Urgent message - I smell the strong odor of a series backfire! Being the US where more expensive is taken to mean more for your money, those bad books just might sell like leather-bound hotcakes.
HOMO SCRIPTOR
Direct acquaintance with writers is harmful. "A poet," says Keats, "isthe least poetic thing in the world." As soon as you know a writer whom you admired from a distance, you stop reading his works. This happens automatically. As for the works themselves, a sensible idea, and one that is currently being put into practice, is for the best works, or at least the best-known works, which may also be good, to be published simultaneously in various Latin American countries. The very bad ones should be brought out by the State in luxury editions with leather bindings and illustrations in order to put them beyond the reach of the poor and, at the same time, keep the majority of poets and novelists happy.
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