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Commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
On the subject of translation, what, if anything, do people think is going to happen when auto-translate is included as a feature with eBooks, as the text-to-speech is with the Kindle at the publisher's discretion? Will it affect the idea...
Commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
Steam sales are also a great indication, by offering much cheaper prices they sell so many more that it makes up for it. But note that many of those cheaper prices are temporary, Keep it low and those new sales...
Commented on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait
Information wants to be free, writers want to get paid. Isn't the trouble with even that more pro-writer version that it puts information and writers on the same level, to be balanced against each other? As Jaron Lanier also notes,...
Commented on Amazon surrenders
I like the idea of giving away multiple formats, especially since some people sometimes end up getting illicit versions of books they already own in order to format shift. I'd also like to see backlist eBooks being temporarily set free...
Commented on Amazon surrenders
unless we postulate that publishers are so good at their business that they a priori know how many people are willing to buy the book at what price Well yes, part of the art of publishing is making as good...

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Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Stevie: I wouldn't like to be in that eBay seller's shoes when Nora Roberts' publisher's lawyers find out who they are! (Some people will sell anything legal or not -- I am informed that someone actually took warez copies of Stephenie Meye's "Twilight" books, all of them, wrapped them in an ebook reader app, and tried to sell them through the Apple App Store to iPhone users!)...
Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Look around for torrents and you will trip over "My favorite 5000 SF novels" every five seconds. Or torrents of 500Mb audiobooks....
Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Your personal imports are indeed okay -- because you presumably paid for them in the licensed territory. (Nor is anyone going to go after punters for buying grey-market imports.)...
krc [clowersnet.net] commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Torrents are usually large collections. Single books (or small collection - trilogies, etc.) are often shared on image boards by putting the book in a rar or zip and embedding it in an image (often a picture of the book cover). 'cat book.rar >> image.jpg'. Image viewers ignore the rar at the end, while the decompression programs ignore the image at the beginning....
errolwi commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
tp1024, Fly-by-wire = commands sent to the motors that actually move the control surfaces etc via electronic signals carried by wire. As opposed to using the physical movement of cables (attached to control column, throttle etc) to activate the motors (or directly move things on smaller aircraft). What's the literal translation of the German for FBW?...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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