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Commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
Better plan: use the rookies who haven't transitioned to making writing their main/only source of income to blaze a trail through the minefield by trial and error. Say, hypothetically, that you get published tomorrow. You'll probably get a few thousand...
Commented on Fang Fuckers: some reflections (in a mirror)
Greg @ 12: Then what does she say about Carmilla? That book features a female vampire who is (implied to be) a lesbian that predates Stoker's work by a quarter century. In fact Stoker's work is very clearly influenced by...
Commented on Customer Satisfaction Survey
Yes, exactly. It was a bitter pill to swallow and I was very angry for a while. I felt like so much of what I'd been taught about the world was a lie that for a while I didn't know...
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Thanks for the congrats. I'm pretty fond of having my own roof. It's a vast improvement from sleeping on a moldy couch in a record store....
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2012 was the first full year in which I was not homeless since my nervous breakdown in late 2010. Additionally, I wrote a book, which is in its final phase of polish. All in all, a good year....
Commented on Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
I won't call you a racist, or a mysogonist, or anything of the sort for not liking Octavia Butler. I will say you have no taste whatsoever, but that's not the same thing....
Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
I think I'd go back to school immediately, get a STEM degree and find my way into the technology world. It's got better career prospects in the medium term. Get a morgage on a house in a decent location as...

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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlPAFMebQXG6KmH1iuibbYAr71cYQ9Y_ZA commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
A/B testing is already being used by some switched on publishers like Sourcebooks. Actually it is more like A/B/C followed by B/D/E followed by E/F/G testing......
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlPAFMebQXG6KmH1iuibbYAr71cYQ9Y_ZA commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
As for applying a PLR-style system to ebook library lending: such a system exists in Sweden and publishers hates it (it is far too rigid). Also in Sweden everybody borrows ebooks for free(counties foots the bill) and almost nobody buys ebooks. Amazon not yet having entered the market may be a contributing factor, but free and easy lending has almost certainly cut into the market for purchasing ebooks. Publishers are not totally irrational in hating lending (forma business point of view). Off course once a title is back-list or too obscure to find any takers when published, it is a...
zhochaka commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
Something that occurred to my brother: will publishers still indulge in bidding wars for books by certain sorts of author? Charlie is well short of the bestseller class of author where the royalties might come closest to matching the advance. On the other hand, production process costs are hardly likely to change until we get to printing. It's publicity which will increase the publisher's costs. Perhaps the numbers make sense as a share of the profits. But the bidding failures that get reported seem to be the memoirs of the celebrities (including politicians) and the more literary sorts of fiction,...
RDSouth commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
"Why not use animated covers?" Because it would waste bandwidth and lead to slow page downloads? However the issue of tiny icons could perhaps be solved by rigging up some kind of a rollover magnifying glass effect, so if you roll the cursor over an icon it shows in a larger form on part of the screen, without requiring clicking on it and going to a new page exclusively about that book. Fat chance that will happen, they probably have done the statistics to know that once you click to go to a book specific page you are more likely...
Antonia T Tiger commented on Things publishers can't do (yet)
You can get waterproof cases for e-readers, essentially plastic bags with a guarantee. So the bath/beach problems are surmountable....

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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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