American - Writer | November 27, 1957 -
Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.
Michael A. Stackpole
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Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
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Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
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Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
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There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.
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It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
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The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
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I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.
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I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
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People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
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If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.
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We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
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