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Post by jackstaynes on Aug 9, 2010 16:20:56 GMT -6
Hey man, nothing personal, if you had yourself a honest to goodness tangible copy I'd be all over it, I dug a Laymon Kind Of Night and would love to read some more Gaybrat, but I ain't getting down with no ebook.
I mean I ain't no Dinosaur or old fashioned or shit, so I'll be fucked if I'm gonna let some dude sit there and tell me that I am just cause I ain't jumping all over their digital shit. You got your leaders, you got your followers and you got your folks that go off and do their own thing and everyone thinks they is cool. I'd much rather be down with the cool cats than following some of them leaders.
I hear what you is saying Jwar, and it's back to that whole authors gotta eat too thing. I hear it loud and clear, all's I'm saying is that some authors I preffer skinny you know what I mean? I mean you got your Brian Keene who a couple of years ago was starting to look a bit obese which is good, it's good, but now Ed Lee starting to pile on the pounds and well I just liked him better when he was lean you know? I mean I gotta eat too you know? And if I'm laying down some dough on a book rather than on steak and chips, then I'd like a little something in return that's just for me you know? Yeah it takes the sting out of it when you get some lavish artwork and a bonus short story, but it ain't as elite as I thought it all was back in the day.
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Post by markgunnells on Aug 9, 2010 16:23:47 GMT -6
Well, I'll hate missing out on you as a reader for this one Jack, but eventually my First Cut book WHISONANT will come out and that will be a tangible physical book.
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Post by ichorous on Aug 9, 2010 18:12:41 GMT -6
Its funny, the same weekend Dorchester drops this bombshell, I get a letter from my company informing me that the U.S. treasury is dropping its paper savings bond program in favor of an electronic savings bond program. As a SF fan, as well as a horror fan, this scares me because we are just one Electromagnetic Pulse away from losing all our savings as well as any ebooks we might have hanging around. There is a lack of permanence with ebooks and ebonds that exist in the ether. Maybe I should burn the MFers onto a disc, just in case.
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Post by markgunnells on Aug 9, 2010 18:56:48 GMT -6
I've always said I believe man-made technology is inherently unreliable. I have an idea for a story set in a distant future where all books are digital and paper books are rare and hard to find. A virus wipes out all the world's literature and "librarians" are trying to recreate it all from memory.
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Post by gnbraun on Aug 10, 2010 19:04:50 GMT -6
Jack, eloquent and straight-to-the-point, as per usual.
This disappoints me, as I saw Dorchester as both an entry point for readers to small press authors and as the most reliable mm publisher of small-press authors, allowing them to pile on the pounds, using Jack's metaphor.
More readers equals more $$$ for the authors, allowing them to write more.
I hate e-books as well. I see the niche they fill, but to me they will never replace the physical.
Plus I owe Leisure for introducing me to some awesome authors.
*Insert sad emoticon HERE*
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Post by JDar on Aug 17, 2010 4:45:14 GMT -6
". . . know when to hold them, don't want to download them . . . . "
Jan
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Post by mmdh55 on Aug 17, 2010 7:47:12 GMT -6
All I can say is THIS SUCKS! Every month I buy the two horror books and the HCC book. Now I will have to wait for the tpb to be released, because I'm not a fan of the digital books either. I spend enough time on the computer already. don't need to spend more time on the computer reading books.
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Post by monkeypenguin on Aug 19, 2010 20:52:32 GMT -6
Brian Keene just did another blog post on this. Looks like Don D'Auria and almost all but one of the editorial staff has been let go. Seems pretty clear Dorchester has gone from circling the drain to speeding down it. www.briankeene.com/?p=4544
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Post by markgunnells on Aug 20, 2010 2:51:48 GMT -6
Oh man, the Leisure line was one of my favorites over the last few years. I will miss it. And firing so many of their editors--doesn't bode well because either they are folding or they just said, "Screw the editorial process."
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