American - Writer | November 27, 1957 -
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
Michael A. Stackpole
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Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
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Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
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Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
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In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.
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I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
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If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.
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Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
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The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.
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Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.
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Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.
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Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
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