Dogpile the luddite!

[chaotic_nipple]

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...

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[reikimaster.livejournal.com]

weird. I was at the panel. in the audience, I mean.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

"It's a small world after all..."

Did you notice the small group of "Baen Barflies" who were drinking heavily and occasionally clinking their beers together and shouting "Hear hear!" in lieu of applause? One of them was me. :-)