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In the future, sentences will be owned piecmeal by corporations. There should be incentive for authors to be paid for individual sentences, which can then be parsed by a computer and incorporated in vast creative and reference works, citing thousands of authors in one volume. Editors sometimes cut thousands of pages to make books readable, with clear structure and characters. Jane Austen, famous for her polished prose, in fact produced rambling manuscripts studded with errors that had to be pruned into shape by her editor. [1]Great books are edited, not written.