Apex Magazine http://www.apex-magazine.com Story: "The Tolling of Pavlov's Bells" by Seanan McGuire Story URL: http://apex-magazine.com/2011/01/06/the-tolling-of-pavlovs-bells/

There's a big overlap between readers and writers, but online writing from content farms and content mills is one place where the interests of readers and writers diverge dramatically. Farmed content may be low-quality fluff, but it's low-quality fluff that pays the bills, as long as there's still a human behind it. With bot-written content, all bets are off, but farmed content, for all its flaws from the reader standpoint, still provides a writing job. The longer version is at http://www.janetharriett.com/blog/2011/10/2/conflicting-interests-writers-and-readers.html