Special Pleading
gavinbaker's bookmarks 2012-10-07
Summary:
"Six years ago, [my novel] couldn't be counted as a real success for open publishing because I was too obscure to feel the cost of the lost sales. Now, I'm too successful, someone whose name is so widely known that I am uniquely situated to benefit from open publishing ... There's a name for this rhetorical tactic: 'special pleading.' ..."