In the October 2006 issue of Technology and Culture, John Lauritz Larson asks: "What are we doing wrong, that we cannot get the vendors of books to sell the good ones in place of the bad at a time when more people (against all prediction) buy books than at any time in history?" By "vendors" Larson chiefly means publishers, and he makes clear that "good" books, by and large, are written by academics, while "bad" ones are written by popular authors. The particular target of his ire, and the inspiration for his jeremiad, is Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, by Peter L. Bernstein, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton.
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机译：在2006年10月出版的《技术与文化》杂志上，约翰·劳里兹·拉森（John Lauritz Larson）提出：“我们做错了什么，当更多的人反对所有预测时，我们无法让书籍销售商出售好书来代替坏书。 ）比历史上任何时候都买书？”拉尔森（Larson）所说的“供应商”主要是指出版商，他明确指出，“好”书大体上是由学者撰写的，而“坏”书则是由受欢迎的作者撰写的。彼得·L·伯恩斯坦（Peter L.Bernstein）于2005年由W. W.诺顿（W. W. Norton）出版，是彼得·L·伯恩斯坦（Peter L. Bernstein）出版的《水上婚礼：伊利运河与伟大国家的建立》，这是他怒火中烧的特别目标，也是他受到嫉妒的灵感。
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