The letter insists that since more books than ever are bought, sold and recommended online, the "health of this existing ecosystem depends on free and honest conversation amongst readers", and pronounces the views of genuine readers as "honest and heartfelt".
What the moderators like to refer to as "genuine readers" are aware of the tactics, partly from news stories about the trolls but also because of the behaviour of "Putinbots" in the comment threads.
Find good ways to clean up spam that don't involve chasing off your genuine readers.
Chatwin had three matchless gifts: he was a thinker of genuine originality; a reader of astonishing erudition; and a writer of breathtaking prose.
Chatwin was a writer blessed with three remarkable gifts: he was a thinker of genuine originality, a reader of astonishing erudition and, above all, a writer of breathtaking prose.
McMurtry, who has turned Archer City, Tex., where he grew up, into a "book town" and helped give it a public library, is a genuine bookman — a reader as much as a collector — but the character of the books he loves is absent from his memoir.
Instead of an emotionally manipulative televised snippet, "A Girl Named Faithful Plum" is a story rich with genuine heart, inspiring readers as well as making them consider what it takes to achieve true greatness.
The true enemy was bourgeois high-mindedness in literature, music, theatre, art, and criticism, and, over the next ten years, he turned much of his critical might to the job of identifying this culture, exposing its calculated banalities, and, often with genuine success, persuading readers of its meretriciousness.
I suppose J. K. Rowling could give me 1.12 billion reasons in favor of it: get your formula just right and you can enjoy worldwide sales, film and television options, vibrating-toy-broom licensing fees, Chinese-language bootlegs of your work, a kind of limited immortality (L. Frank Baum who?) and — finally — genuine grown-up readers.
