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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by 918298191 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @03:45AM (#12021786)
If this theory is true, one needs to take it up with women: In my country they are the majority of book buyers and yes, many of them would probably respond to the memoir angle.

Men would not.

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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by PhasmaFelis on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:55AM (#12022940)
The publisher is still at fault. Lying does not become okay when it gets you money.
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Re:Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets t... by 099128981281 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:05PM (#12022971)
I was responding to:

"Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way."

The point is that apparently the female buyers cannot "conceive of women in a contemporary way".

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