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Date: 2007-09-20 05:58 pm (UTC)The subsidy argument, I could buy--IIRC, many years ago Donald Wollheim was asked at a WisCon why he published the Gor books. He claimed in response that they sold Really, Really Well, and w/o that revenue stream he wouldn't have been able to take a chance on a lot of other authors (Doris Piserchia and Jo Clayton are the only ones who spring to mind, although CJ Cherryh may have been a DAW find).
What I have a lot more trouble with is the comment that That one looks like a pretty extraordinary claim, and I'd expect more proof than a comment by David Drake (even though he'd be far more likely to know about something like that than I am).