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chaotic_nipple) wrote2007-04-14 04:27 am
chaotic_nipple) wrote2007-04-14 04:27 am
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Dogpile the luddite!
According to the current Vice President of the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, authors who put their work online for free are "Webscabs" who are stealing food from the mouths of the children of those writers who don't chose to "give away their work".
I remember at DragonCon a few years ago, there was a panel on the "Future of Ebooks", and right after John Ringo gave a spiel about how every book that was put up for download on the Baen Free Library sold more paper copies afterwards, one of the other writers on the panel made the same argument. John's face went through such amazing contortions, I wish I'd had a video camera...
I remember at DragonCon a few years ago, there was a panel on the "Future of Ebooks", and right after John Ringo gave a spiel about how every book that was put up for download on the Baen Free Library sold more paper copies afterwards, one of the other writers on the panel made the same argument. John's face went through such amazing contortions, I wish I'd had a video camera...
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BTW, I would totally recommend that you go see This guy's (http://jonathancoulton.com/) show next month, but it's at a bar so you probably won't be able to.